noun

• A person who commits arson.

  ‘police believe arsonists were responsible for both fires’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I did not find even one case that dealt with the sentencing of a female serial arsonist.’
  • ‘A convicted arsonist with a history of mental illness has been set free despite threatening to set fire to a block of flats.’
  • ‘The press has been quick to condemn arsonists for the fires raging in New South Wales in Australia.’
  • ‘A gang of arsonists today torched a car with a petrol bomb.’
  • ‘Detectives are scouring court lists as they try to trace the arsonists responsible for a devastating attack on York Crown Court.’

  Synonyms

  incendiary, pyromaniac, firebomber

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