请输入您要查询的英文单词：

　

单词 criminality
释义

Trends of
criminality

View usage for:

criminality in British English

(ˌkrɪmɪˈnælɪtɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -ties
1. 
the state or quality of being criminal
2. (often plural) rare
a criminal act or practice

criminality in American English

(ˌkrɪməˈnæləti)
noun
1. 
the quality, state, or fact of being criminal
2. Word forms: plural ˌcrimiˈnalities
a criminal action

Examples of 'criminality' in a sentence
criminality

This was organised criminality, a high street business making money at the cost of human suffering.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Those who smuggle tobacco products are often involved in other forms of serious criminality.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This is all the more so where the investigation involves the suspicion of serious criminality.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
They are very dangerous people who are involved in serious criminality.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It is by a dogged insistence on the common criminality of violence.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It must provide an answer to the lack of policing, and the rampant criminality and corruption.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
On one hand, it provides a platform for mindless thuggery and serious criminality.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
But throughout history much serious criminality has involved conspiracy, including conspiracies of an international sort.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
He displays the inherent decency of many, but does not shrink from the violence and criminality of others.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
Few speakers excuse the violence or criminality, but many offer fresh context for it, as well as for the punitive sentencing that ensued.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)

Synonyms of 'criminality'

illegality, crime, corruption, delinquency
More Synonyms of criminality
(noun) 
The evils of unemployment have increased criminality in the inner cities.
Synonyms
illegality
There is no evidence of illegality.
crime
Much of the city's crime revolves around protection rackets.
corruption
It was a society sinking into corruption and vice.
delinquency
He had no history of delinquency.
wrongdoing
The authorities haven't found any evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
lawlessness
wickedness
moral arguments about the wickedness of nuclear weapons
They have sunk to new levels of wickedness.
depravity
the absolute depravity that can exist in times of war
culpability
villainy
They justify their villainy in the name of their high ideals.
sinfulness
turpitude (formal)
a beacon of morality in a sea of turpitude
guiltiness

Additional synonyms

in the sense of corruption
Definition
the act of corrupting morally or sexually
It was a society sinking into corruption and vice.
Synonyms
depravity,
vice,
evil,
degradation,
perversion,
decadence,
impurity,
wickedness,
degeneration,
immorality,
iniquity,
profligacy,
viciousness,
sinfulness,
turpitude (formal),
baseness
in the sense of crime
Definition
unlawful acts collectively
Much of the city's crime revolves around protection rackets.
Synonyms
lawbreaking,
corruption,
delinquency,
illegality,
wrong,
vice,
sin,
guilt,
misconduct,
wrongdoing,
wickedness,
iniquity,
villainy,
unrighteousness,
malefaction,
e-crime or ecrime,
cybercrime
in the sense of delinquency
He had no history of delinquency.
Synonyms
crime,
misconduct,
wrongdoing,
fault,
offence,
misdemeanour,
misdeed,
misbehaviour,
villainy,
lawbreaking

Nearby words of
criminality

  • cricket
  • crime
  • criminal
  • criminality
  • cringe
  • crinkle
  • crinkly

Synonyms of 'criminality'

criminality

Explore 'criminality' in the dictionary
随便看

　

英语词典包含298861条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。

　

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间：2025/1/9 18:22:33