Is a "common criminal" an "ordinary criminal" or a "notorious criminal"? Is a "common criminal" an "ordinary criminal" or a "notorious criminal"? Are the two meanings equally often used in contemporar (2024)

Is a "common criminal" an "ordinary criminal" or a "notorious criminal"?

Is a "common criminal" an "ordinary criminal" or a "notorious criminal"? Are the two meanings equally often used in contemporary English?

I have several use examples as follows, is it possible to decide at the first sight/hearing which meaning is carried in each sentence without more context(and I actually do not have)?

1. He also berate Carter for inviting Soviet dissident Vladmir Bukovsky, whom he called " a common criminal", to the White House?

2. Because of one minor offence he was branded a common criminal.

3. The government insisted he was a common criminal.

4. A Canadian judge upheld the deportation on Thursday of one of China's most wated figitives, calling him a "common criminal".

5. As for pictures of Mr. Strauss-Kahn in handcuffs, the French may see a famous politician treated like a common criminal.

6. He refused to wear the blue uniform of a common criminal, going naked or in underpants.

7. In most people's eyes she was nothing more than a common criminal.