The word 'arsonist' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun which refers to a person who deliberately sets fire to property. Example sentence: The police arrested the arsonist who had started the fire in the abandoned warehouse.
He was a bit of an arsonist, but then he was born on November 5th, and one of his names is Guy".
That is annoying enough, but what if a tech-savvy arsonist were to find a way of, say, taking control of home boilers and turn them up so much that they burst into flames?
By coincidence, a judge in California ruled on September 11th that four fires set by the same arsonist within a couple of hours in four different county courthouses constituted four separate occurrences.
"Will we finally have to pay for all of Europe?" asked Bild, a tabloid.Other Europeans see Germany as an arsonist.
ONCE a burning firelighter is placed against a tyre, it takes a few minutes for a car to ignite, giving the arsonist plenty of time to escape.
It was set deliberately by an arsonist.
After signing with Paramount, Marshall made The Forest Rangers (1942), with Fred MacMurray as a ranger who is searching for an arsonist and Susan Hayward and Goddard as the women who love him.
An arsonist may act from a variety of different motives, including rage, jealousy, profit (e.g., burnings undertaken to commit insurance fraud), and the desire to conceal or destroy evidence.
The supposed arsonist was a Dutchman, Marinus van der Lubbe, whom some have claimed was brought to the scene of the crime by Nazi agents.
A predawn fire at a nightclub claimed the lives of 11 persons, 10 of whom died after being hospitalized for smoke inhalation; the blaze, which was possibly the work of an arsonist, also injured 13 of the 39 persons on the premises.
In nearly all countries, an arsonist may be prosecuted for murder if someone dies as a result of the act, even if the intention to kill is absent.
