criminal

criminal: crim·i·nal¹ /'kri-mə-nəl/ adj

1: relating to, involving, or being a crime

criminal neglect

criminal conduct

2: relating to crime or its prosecution

brought a criminal action

criminal code compare civil 4, penal

criminal² n

1: one who has committed a crime

2: a person who has been convicted of a crime

criminal: I noun bandit, blackguard, buccaneer, burglar, convict, defrauder, evildoer, extortionist, felon, filcher, fugitive, gangster, grafter, guilty person, gunman, hardened offender, juvenile delinquent, kidnapper, killer, knave, lawbreaker, malefactor, malfeasant, manslayer, marauder, misdemeanant, murderer, offender, outlaw, pilferer, pillager, pirate, plunderer, public enemy, recidivist, recreant, reprobate, reus, robber, sceleratus, smuggler, sneak thief, swindler, terrorist, thief, transgressor, underworld character, villain, worker of iniquity, wrongdoer associated concepts: convicted criminal, criminal action, criminal attempt, criminal capacity, criminal case or cause, criminal charge, criminal code, criminal conduct, criminal conspiracy, criminal contempt, criminal conviction, criminal courts, criminal information, criminal intent, criminal judgments, criminal jurisdiction, criminal motive, criminal negligence, criminal offense, criminal procedure, criminal process, criminal prosecution, criminal responsibility, criminal sanctions, criminal solicitation, criminal statute criminal syndicalism, criminal transaction, criminal trial, habitual criminal, known criminals foreign phrases:
- Frustra legis auxllium invocat qui in legem committk. — He vainly seeks the aid of the law who transgresses the law
II index aggressor, assailant, blameful, blameworthy, burglar, convict, culpable, delinquent (guilty of a misdeed), delinquent, embezzler, felon, felonious, guilty, hoodlum, illegal, illegitimate (illegal), illicit, immoral, impermissible, iniquitous, irregular (improper), larcenous, lawbreaker, lawless, malefactor, nefarious, offender, outlaw, peccant (culpable), prisoner, racketeer, recidivist, reprehensible, reprobate, tainted (corrupted), thief, unconscionable, unlawful, vandal, vicious, wrongdoer, wrongful

criminal: n.
One who commits a crime; one who violates a criminal law.
adj.
Related to a crime; done with malice or intent to injure.

criminal: 1) A popular term for anyone who has committed a crime, whether convicted of the offense or not. More properly, it applies only to those actually convicted of a crime. Repeat offenders are sometimes called habitual criminals.

2) Certain acts or people involved in or relating to a crime. Examples include "criminal taking," "criminal conspiracy," a "criminal gang."

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criminal: n.

1 One who has committed a crime.

2 One who has been convicted of a crime.

3 Constituting, implying, or involving a crime or an element of a crime.

4 Pertaining to some aspect of the penal code or its administration.

@ career criminal

One who repeatedly commits crimes, especially of the same type.

See also habitual criminal

@ habitual criminal

One who has been convicted of one or more crimes in the past and, as a result, is subject to a more severe sentence under the habitual offender statute of a state for any subsequent crime that they commit. Also called habitual offender.

See also career criminal and three-strikes law.
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criminal: Pertaining to, or involving, crimes or the administration of penal justice. An individual who has been found guilty of the commission of conduct that causes social harm and that is punishable by law; a person who has committed a crime.

criminal: Pertaining to, or involving, crimes or the administration of penal justice. An individual who has been found guilty of the commission of conduct that causes social harm and that is punishable by law; a person who has committed a crime.

criminal:    1) n. a popular term for anyone who has committed a crime, whether convicted of the offense or not. More properly it should apply only to those actually convicted of a crime. Repeat offenders are sometimes called habitual criminals.

   2) adj. describing certain acts or people involved in or relating to a crime. Examples of uses include "criminal taking," "criminal conspiracy," a "criminal gang."

   See also: convict, felon, habitual criminal

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Synonyms:

Grossly contrary to law, illegal, felonious, tending to crime, stained by crime / Culpable, guilty, wicked, iniquitous, flagitious, Culprit, delinquent, offender, transgressor, trespasser, malefactor, convict, felon

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