crime

[crime]

Something that's against the law is a crime. If your friend shoplifts clothes from a store, you'll be disappointed because you know that stealing is a serious crime.

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Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

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"

n.
Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

n.
Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.

n.
Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.

n.
That which occasion crime.

Crime

Crime (kr?m), n.[F. crime, fr. L. crimen judicial decision, that which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the root of cernere to decide judicially. See Certain.] 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. "To part error from crime." Tennyson. &hand; Crimes, in the English common law, are grave offenses which were originally capitally punished (murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and larceny), as distinguished from misdemeanors, which are offenses of a lighter grade. See Misdemeanors. 3. Any great wickedness or sin; iniguity.

Nocrime was thine, if 'tis no crime to love.

4. That which occasion crime. [Obs.]

The tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall.

Capital crime, a crime punishable with death. Syn. -- Sin; vice; iniquity; wrong. -- Crime, Sin,Vice. Sin is the generic term, embracing wickedness of every kind, but specifically denoting an offense as committed against God. Crime is strictly a violation of law either human or divine; but in present usage the term is commonly applied to actions contrary to the laws of the State. Vice is more distinctively that which springs from the inordinate indulgence of the natural appetites, which are in themselves innocent. Thus intemperance, unchastity, duplicity, etc., are vices; while murder, forgery, etc., which spring from the indulgence of selfish passions, are crimes.

Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.

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Usage Examples

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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Other Usage Examples

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Crime shapes how we think about the world it shapes social decisions that we make it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.