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crime Noun

— A crime is an act that is against the law and for which you can go to jail. Murder is a crime. New York has a lot of crime. — A crime is an extremely bad action. Letting that puppy die is a crime.

crime

— noun (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act a long record of crimes — noun an evil act not necessarily punishable by law crimes of the heart

Synonyms crime synonyms

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crime English » English

sin offence fault offense felony guilt transgression violation criminality wrongdoing vice illegal act evil delinquency wickedness misdemeanour evil deed outrage murder criminal offense criminal offence villainy mistake law-breaking infraction criminal act blame treason theft ruler punishment misdemeanor misdeed malefaction law iniquity error contravention abuse wrong-doing wrong violence violation of law vandalism trespass tort slaying sinning scandal robbery

Topics crime topics

What do people use crime to talk about?

Social behavior Law

Bad, immoral

What words refer to someone becoming bad?

go bad go wrong turn to crime fall fall into sin

Social behavior Government

Government functions

What are the functions of government?

regulation of trade regulation of finance coinage printing money public works keeping the peace waging war putting down rebellion passing laws enforcing the law punishing crime

Social behavior Government Government functions

Police

What do police do?

enforce the law investigate crime patrol set up roadblocks file reports

Social behavior Law Justice

Deserve

What words indicate that someone deserves the problems they are having?

deserve had it coming get what you deserve serve someone right get your just deserts get what was coming to you your punishment fits the crime

Work and occupation Finance Dishonest financial practices

Extort money

What words refer to extorting money?

extort extortion racket racketeering organized crime

Examples crime examples

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Simple sentences

Bill did not commit the crime.

I have nothing to do with this crime.

Rape is a horrible crime.

That's a crime against humanity!

I spent 20 years in prison for a crime I did not commit.

Inciting racial hatred is a crime.

The crime is almost solved.

Tom is conducting an investigation of this crime.

They made him confess to a crime he didn't commit.

Between 13th and 15th February 1945, British and American bombers fire bombed the city of Dersden, Germany. These action were later deemed a war crime.

Luckily, there is little crime in my town.

Even though he had served his time in prison, the murderer was never quite condoned by the public for his crime.

So what if I am gay? Is it a crime?

Baffled by Sherlock Holmes' cryptic remarks, Watson wondered whether Holmes was intentionally concealing his thoughts about the crime.

He ought to be punished if he commits a crime.

It's no crime to skip breakfast once in a while.

It's no crime to just idle the whole day once in a while.

It was horrible to hear about the crime.

That crime is punishable by death.

What is the main cause of the crime?

It is well known that the city has a high crime rate.

The man said he was innocent of the crime.

The newspaper alleged his involvement in the crime.

He committed one crime after another.

No one has been convicted of the crime yet.

In Singapore, it is a crime to spit on the ground.

Jack insists that he has nothing to do with the crime.

A detective arrived upon the scene of the crime.

The punishment should be in proportion to the crime.

Murder is a wicked crime.

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In 1 551, it became a crime even to go to sea on a multi-masted ship.

But the crime she committed today.. has no excuse at all.

Do you really want to know how serious the crime is for the officers to ignore their own Magistrate?

If it wasn't done by the office, who would dare to touch that crime scene?

I came to pay my respects to one of our great poets and ended up in a crime scene.

Crime or negligence?

That's hardly a crime. Reverend Greene, on the other hand, well, you were always keen to play.

I leave a meat pie at the scene of a crime and get someone else to be on the float.

The makings of a perfect crime. Mm.

A pan of custard is hardly a nutritional crime.

And Detective Murdoch is a good man who's been accused of a crime he didn't commit.

Let us abandon this life of crime.

Nydia does not know she is a victim of the crime.

To save Glaucus, Nydia admits her crime to Arbaces.

The government considers it a federal crime.

But. As far as I know, there is only one person who could have committed this crime: The elegant Mister Krafft.

Dreaming of fame and money he was ready even to commit crime.

There won't be any more witnesses of his crime.

The building manager, Mr. Bonneau, claimed he saw you leave 10 minutes before the crime was discovered.

The crime was discovered at 4:05 AM. So you must've left the theater at 3:55 AM.

For the record, the prosecutor has claimed the crime could have been committed by anyone.

Mr. Barreau, you testified earlier that as cashier at the Folies Montmartre, on the night of the crime, you brought the victim 20,000 f.

Tell us what you know about the crime.

Where were you when the crime was committed?

She couldn't have committed this crime.

Stick to the facts directly related to the crime and, again, address the jury.

No. Remember me from the theater on the night of the crime?

What do you know about the crime committed at the Folies Montmartre?

What? Your Majesty, doesn't Gim Bong Gu have a crime of disturbing the South-North peace?

Magistrate, we were just. You're going to pretend you didn't do that? If it wasn't done by the office, who would dare to touch that crime scene?

I really had an appointment with Lia Leid at the scene of the crime.

I committed a crime and must pay for that.

A normal human will always return to the site of the crime.

This woman will disappear. There won't be any more witnesses of his crime.

YOU KNOW, UH, A CRIME LIKE THIS, IT'S, UH, 15 TO 20 YEARS.

You ain't committed no crime, have you?

Is it a crime to buy what I can pay for?

Crime doesn't pay.

I came back.. to pay for my crime.

News and current affairs

The next hurdle is to support Kalingrad's fight against disease and crime as well as strengthening its economic and social structures.

Cyber war and cyber espionage are largely associated with states, while cyber crime and cyber terrorism are mostly associated with non-state actors.

The highest costs currently stem from espionage and crime; but, over the next decade or so, cyber war and cyber terrorism may become greater threats than they are today.

Nonetheless, it may be possible to identify behaviors like cyber crime that are illegal in many domestic jurisdictions.

Trying to limit all intrusions would be impossible, but one could start with cyber crime and cyber terrorism involving non-state parties.

Their crime was to call for a constitutional monarchy.

With such vicious cycles of crime, punishment and dis-investment in poor communities it is no surprise that the prison population has expanded to such an extent.

Despite dramatically falling crime rates over the last ten years (which most criminologists attribute more to demography - there have simply been fewer young men of late - than incarceration), prison populations have continued to soar.

Much of that increase has more to do with public perceptions about supposed crime waves and ham-handed public and political responses to occasional headline-capturing murders, than any actual underlying crime rate.

Each of these constitutes a war crime, a crime against humanity and, in the case of the Anfal campaign and its mass slaughter, and perhaps also in the case of the Marsh Arabs, the gravest crime of all, genocide.

Like the murder of Archbishop Thomas Beckett in his Canterbury Cathedral many centuries ago, the crime was committed in the clear belief that it would please the king.

In the coming days, judges sitting on the International Criminal Court in The Hague will decide whether to issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for the crime of genocide.

This unconscionable fabrication was fully exposed only after Abacha's death and the spate of confessions that followed it by the police agents who actually committed the crime.

It was they who exposed the complicity of certain foreign powers in an ongoing crime against humanity.

Notice that most of these measures are actually aimed at reducing damage - for example, climate change, military conflict, and financial crime - that otherwise results from rich countries' conduct.

NEW YORK - One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world's collective conscience.

Now, it is feared, organized crime will intimidate his less talented successors.

Many policemen and intelligence officers are on the crime bosses' payrolls.

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