Antonyms for crime
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : krahym |
| Phonetic Transcription : kraɪm |
Definition of crime
Origin :- mid-13c., "sinfulness," from Old French crimne (12c., Modern French crime), from Latin crimen (genitive criminis) "charge, indictment, accusation; crime, fault, offense," perhaps from cernere "to decide, to sift" (see crisis). But Klein (citing Brugmann) rejects this and suggests *cri-men, which originally would have been "cry of distress" (Tucker also suggests a root in "cry" words and refers to English plaint, plaintiff, etc.). Meaning "offense punishable by law" is from late 14c. The Latin word is glossed in Old English by facen, also "deceit, fraud, treachery." Crime wave first attested 1893, American English.
- noun offense against the law
- The gayety of a light-hearted maiden is often unmixed with boldness, or crime.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- He was therefore condemned, and perished on the scaffold for the crime.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- It is a crime which, if persisted in, will destroy the Government itself.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- There is crime to be conquered, the rough crime of the streets.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- To have disregarded it would have been a crime from which his soul shrank.
- Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
- With no crime laid to him, he was hunted down as a wild beast.
- Extract from : « Biography of a Slave » by Charles Thompson
- If they made less of crime in another, they also made less of innocence from it in themselves!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- A euphemism of kleptomania had been offered and accepted as sufficient excuse for her crime.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- Even now, he was engaged in committing that crime which she had forbidden him.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- His sole ambition just now was to fix the crime definitely on the perpetrator.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
Synonyms for crime
- abomination
- antisocial behavior
- atrocity
- breach
- break
- caper
- case
- corruption
- criminality
- delict
- delictum
- delinquency
- depravity
- dereliction
- enormity
- evil
- evil behavior
- fast one
- fault
- felony
- hit
- illegality
- immorality
- infraction
- infringement
- iniquity
- job
- lawlessness
- malefaction
- malfeasance
- misconduct
- misdeed
- misdemeanor
- mortal sin
- outrage
- racket
- scandal
- sneak
- tort
- transgression
- trespass
- unlawful act
- vice
- villainy
- violation
- wickedness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
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