Criminal
['krɪmɪn(ə)l] or ['krɪmɪnl]
Definition
(noun.) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime.
(adj.) guilty of crime or serious offense; 'criminal in the sight of God and man' .
(adj.) involving or being or having the nature of a crime; 'a criminal offense'; 'criminal abuse'; 'felonious intent' .
Editor: Robert--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Guilty of crime or sin.
(a.) Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.
(a.) Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code.
(n.) One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a felon.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Wrong, contrary to law.[2]. Culpable, guilty.
n. Culprit, delinquent, offender, transgressor, trespasser, malefactor, convict, felon.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Illegal, felonious, vicious, culpable, wrong, iniquitous, sinful, immoral,guilty, nefarious, flagitious
ANT:Lawful, virtuous, right, jury_innocent, moral, meritorious, creditable,honorable, praiseworthy, laudable
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of associating with a person who has committed a crime, denotes that you will be harassed with unscrupulous persons, who will try to use your friendship for their own advancement. To see a criminal fleeing from justice, denotes that you will come into the possession of the secrets of others, and will therefore be in danger, for they will fear that you will betray them, and consequently will seek your removal.
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Examples
- Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I approach Rachel with the feeling of a criminal who is going to receive his sentence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She bethought herself now of the condemned criminal. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I want to take up Wilberforce's and Romilly's line, you know, and work at Negro Emancipation, Criminal Law--that kind of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I longed to leave them as the criminal on the scaffold longs for the axe to descend: that is, I wished the pang over. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I suppose that you will admit that the action is morally justifiable, though technically criminal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I feel like a criminal. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Not of course by criminal terrorist and counterrevolutionary organizations. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I meant no harm, and yet he would have thought it criminal. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Whether it was a criminal act that I had committed? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you, cried the inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A criminal who was capable of such a thought is a man whom I should be proud to do business with. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I abetted and encouraged him in his criminal design. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The execution of a criminal. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- It will be obvious that any details which would help the reader exactly to identify the college or the criminal would be injudicious and offensive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The plan of identifying people by their finger-prints, although at first used only on criminals, is now put to many other uses. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If great criminals told the truth--which, being great criminals, they do not--they would very rarely tell of their struggles against the crime. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is of some comfort to know that this brutal use of the rope is being replaced by more humane methods of ending the lives of condemned criminals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- That there are foolish criminals who are discovered, and wise criminals who escape. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- One would think that we were the criminals. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- These criminals undergo the fearful operation without a wince, without a tremor of any kind, without a groan! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I wish we did not always have to live like criminals, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- When you see how business controls politics, it certainly is not very illuminating to call the successful business men of a nation criminals. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It was a history of the lives and trials of great criminals; and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The world may sneer at a turnkey, but he's a man--when he isn't a woman, which among female criminals he's expected to be. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And we never live like criminals. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was impenitent--but were not public criminals impenitent? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not destined to fall into the hands of justice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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