criminal
IPA: krˈɪmʌnʌɫ
noun
- A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
adjective
- Against the law; forbidden by law.
- Guilty of breaking the law.
- Of or relating to crime or penal law.
- (figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable.
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Examples of "criminal" in Sentences
- The criminal is penitent.
- The conspirator was the criminal.
- Is is fair to decriminalize a criminal
- The criminal committed illegal practice.
- Prosecute the criminals not the patients.
- We will persecute criminals behind 'price tag' acts.
- The word criminal is more an emotional than legal term.
- During his term, he signed the Incorrigible Criminal Act.
- The criminals used stolen or illegal weapons to perpetrate crimes.
- The criminal then attacks the investigator as the screen cuts to black.
- The Acts were the product of a failed attempt to codify the criminal law.
- These were not just mistakes, and that is why I use the term criminal mujahideen.
- But I've never really heard the term -- maybe you have -- I haven't heard the term criminal scene.
- You realize, of course, that thinking like a criminal is the primary mode of analysis for security research.
- Umuvugizi editor Jean Bosco Gasasira says he will continue to expose corruption and what he calls criminal activities in Rwanda
- From his exiled home in Sweden, Gasasira says he will continue to expose corruption and what he calls criminal activities in Rwanda.
- #criminal raybeckerman @wtk1 @OTOOLEFAN We trust our laws to balance (a) punishment of criminal acts w (b) protection of US citizens rights.
- He said that her mother-in-law and other members of the family were reportedly involved in what he described as "criminal activities," which he said included selling alcohol and prostitution.
- Lucien, suppose you were a great criminal, I don't mean the ordinary clever scoundrel who succeeds for a time and is finally caught, but a _really great criminal_, the kind that appears once or twice, in a century, a man with immense power and intelligence. "
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