Word Finder - crime

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A specific act committed in violation of the law.

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Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.

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That which occasions crime.

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Criminal acts collectively.

synonyms

• criminality
• delinquency

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The habit or practice of committing crimes.

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Crime doesn’t pay.

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To subject to disciplinary punishment.

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To commit crime(s).

You're not accused of any crime so I'm not harboring any fugitives.

We won't go anywhere near the crime scene; ever.

The crime lab guys in Denver will be able to.

The crime was national headline news.

Carry this cat away to prison, and keep her in safe confinement until she is tried by law for the crime of murder.

He was often woken from the crime scene by honking horns or outside noises.

The crime had begun and must now be completed.

We have to sic Howie on the crime scene.

New local acquaintances never questioned us about work and we displayed no interest in anything pertaining to crime or mayhem.

I still think it's a crime you lost so much time out of your life.

I don't know why you vetoed my 'Dean is Mean—on Crime!' slogan.

The crime scene was the top of the cliff, where the rope was slashed.

I'm talking about Howie's reaction to witnessing a crime being committed.

There's only a crime if I say there is.

Villani (ix.218) quotes the belief, and the Anonimo Fiorentino describes the crime and its motive.

The chitchat roamed from details of Friday's luncheon to views on crime and punishment, which, as the booze went down, became more and more general.

It is perhaps the worst crime, because the most cold-blooded and ungenerous, which can be laid to his charge.

Murder isn't the only form of violent crime that is falling.

The crime was eerily reminiscent of the Delaware kidnapping case where Howie was unsuccessful.

That's no crime; he didn't do it to defraud anyone.

Could Nota and his affiliated crime family be that sly?

Besides, if he was imprisoned for a crime like these murders, he'd still be rotting behind bars.

He was later arrested on another rape, charged with that crime, and sent away.

You said so yourself—you've got no real evidence a crime was even committed—you lost the body!

He was disheartened that Dean had no intention of running over to the crime scene, where Dean had no business whatsoever.

Besides, Nota was the only member of the crime family who knew Dean's face and by all accounts he'd left Parkside some time ago.

In Rome the pope gave way to popular clamour, granting one concession after another, and on the 8th of February he publicly called down Gods blessing on Italythat Italy hated by the Austrians, whose name it had hitherto been a crime to mention.

These are daunting statistics, yet they point to one potential solution to drug-related crime.

Can the system learn to predict crime targets?

As clichéd as it is to complain about rising rates of crime, the statistics tell a different story.

Since the world began and men have killed one another no one has ever committed such a crime against his fellow man without comforting himself with this same idea.

He was sick of Hell, yet Kris's crime deserved punishment.

On the 15th of November he was assassinated, and as no one was punished for this crime the insolence of the disorderly elements increased, and shots were exchanged with the Swiss Guard.

In December 1898 he convoked a diplomatic conference in Rome to discuss secret means for the repression of anarchist propaganda and crime in view of the assassination of the empress of Austria by an Italian anarchist (Luccheni), but it is doubtful whether results of practical value were achieved.

The 123rd Novell (c. 21) provides that if a clerk be accused of a secular crime he shall be accused before his bishop, who may depose him from his office and order, and then the competent judge may take him and deal with him according to the laws.

If the prosecutor have first brought him before the civil judge, the evidence is to be sent to the bishop, and the latter, if he thinks the crime has been committed, may deprive him of his office and order, and the judge shall apply to him the proper legal punishment.

The dictator appointed to meet the dangers of war, sedition or crime was technically described as " the administrative dictator (rei gerundae causa).

From the 17th century until modern times this was notorious as a home of crime and poverty.

Her wrath at the sacrifice of Iphigeneia, and her jealousy of Cassandra, are said to have been the motives of her crime.

The penalties of the law for crime were specially severe on slaves.

Banished from France for this crime (1322), Robert of Artois took refuge in England, where he became earl of Richmond, and incited Edward III.

The three murderers of Inez were sent out of the kingdom by Alphonso, who knew his son too well not to be aware that the vengeance would be tremendous as the crime.

Crime was rarely punished, and debts were not recoverable.

His cruelty and licentiousness, coupled with his accessibility to bribes, led to a great increase of crime in Judaea.

He died in Rome while the imperial commissioners were investigating the circumstances under which two important Roman personages had been seized at the Lateran, blinded and afterwards beheaded; Paschal had shielded the murderers but denied all personal complicity in their crime.

The crime of this new schism was soon to be expiated by its perpetrators.

Serious crime is rare among them and "deliberate murder is almost unknown."

The others were all said to have "confessed in a manner" on the scaffold, but much weight cannot be placed on these general confessions, which were, according to the custom of the time, a declaration of submission to the king's will and of general repentance rather than acknowledgment of the special crime.

Crime is infrequent, and morality, always above the Polynesian average, has improved.

The situation went from bad to worse, the deficit in the budget increased, the gendarmery, which received no pay, became insubordinate, and crime multiplied.