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US
/ˈkɹɪmənəɫ/
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[ UK /kɹˈɪmɪnəl/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɪmɪnəl/ ]
NOUN
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
ADJECTIVE
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involving or being or having the nature of a crime
felonious intent
criminal abuse
a criminal offense -
guilty of crime or serious offense
criminal in the sight of God and man -
bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
a deplorable act of violence
adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife
a criminal waste of talent
How To Use criminal In A Sentence
- A group of soldiers loyal to their warlord came over the hills, looking for a common criminal.
- Interestingly, some jurists even asserted that judges who rely on a coerced confession in a criminal conviction are to be held liable for the wrongful conviction.
- Although marijuana is technically illegal, personal consumption is arguably decriminalized due to the ‘ban on excessive punishment’ written into German law.
- He identified the corpse as the criminal hunted after.
- A judicial committee rejected his allegations and recommended that criminal charges of libel should be brought against anyone repeating them. Times, Sunday Times
- Why not empty prisons of all criminals and fill them with law abiding people? The Sun
- All four men continue to deny any wrongdoing under the criminal and sporting proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
- The "lawmen" in the Justice Department, etc, who are doing the hard work to bring these Wall Street criminals to the courthouse will be compromised. Stephen Gyllenhaal: Goldman and Sachs and Lipstick and Rouge
- I think the argument of race as a cause of criminality like Walter brings up is somewhat off-point - The reason why those racial divides in criminality show up is mainly because those lines go together with education - or rather: the lack of good education. Can a Godless Society be a
- This is criminal negligence at best or treason at worst. The Sun
