Definition of Criminal

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Criminal

Guilty of crime or sin.

Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.

Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal code.

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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Criminal Quotations

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
Mark Twain

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert Kennedy

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
John Maynard Keynes

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
Alfred Adler

Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.
Curtis Lemay

Criminal Translations

criminal in Dutch is misdadig, snood, crimineel
criminal in German is kriminell, verbrecherisch
criminal in Italian is malfattore
criminal in Latin is scelestus
criminal in Spanish is delictivo, malhechor

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