Definition: 1. Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime. 2. Relating to crime or its punishment. 3. Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure. 4. Guilty of crime or serious offense. 5. Involving or being or having the nature of a crime.
Use 'criminal' in a sentence:
1. Jesse was an outlaw, a bandit, a criminal.
2. He is a tax lawyer, and I am going to major in criminal law.
3. Taft grumbled that the law so favoured the criminal that trials seemed like a game of chance.
4. They were hardened criminals.
5. The city attorney's office hasn't found any evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
6. Her husband faces various criminal charges.
7. They are beginning criminal proceedings against him for breaking the law on financing political parties.
8. People with diplomatic passports are immune from criminal prosecution.
9. He believes that some people are predisposed to criminal behaviour.
10. Last night a top criminal psychologist cast doubt on the theory.
11. Under international law, diplomats living in foreign countries are exempt from criminal prosecution.
12. Some claim that she still has connections to the criminal underworld.
13. The criminals know how to play the system and get away with it.
14. The criminal was kept in the specially designed prison.
15. I can only feel disgust for these criminals.
16. Northbridge is a cool, calculating, and clever criminal who could strike again.
17. The US administration recently branded him a war criminal.
18. They pleaded guilty to lesser charges of criminal damage.
19. The criminal justice system is in need of urgent reform to prevent more people being wrongfully imprisoned.
20. Criminals could at one time be sentenced to penal servitude.
21. He said he had done nothing wrong to merit a criminal investigation.
22. Apart from criminal investigation techniques, students learn forensic medicine, philosophy and logic.
23. They would be sacked for criminal or scandalous behaviour.
24. Society does not know how to deal with hardened criminals.
25. He is not one of your garden-variety criminals.
26. All this had an extremely negative effect on the criminal justice system.
27. He did not want to reform the criminal justice system in its totality.
28. The mere fact of being poor makes such children criminals in the eyes of the police.
29. His landlady had treated him like a dangerous criminal, a pariah.
30. The new law makes it a criminal offense to drink alcohol in public places.
31. Within criminal law almost anything could be defined as 'crime'.
32. Details of his criminal activities were expunged from the file.
33. Even in prison, he continued to engage in criminal activities.
34. He may still face criminal charges.
35. The president says the measure is soft and weak on criminals.
36. Drunk driving is a criminal offence.
37. She seemed perversely proud of her criminal record.
38. She's an authority on criminal law.
39. He specialized in criminal law.
40. The introduction of a new code of criminal procedure has also slowed up the system.
41. Reducing prison sentences would send the wrong signals to criminals.
42. In most people's eyes she was nothing more than a common criminal.
43. We need to give young criminals a short, sharp shock.
44. He was a professor of criminal law at Harvard University law school.
45. He decided there was insufficient evidence to justify criminal proceedings.
46. An insecure computer system is an open door to criminals.
47. The criminal judicial system always comes up at the top of the list of voters' concerns in focus groups.
48. Too bad he used his intelligence for criminal purposes.
49. This is a criminal waste of resources.
50. Does such an activity constitute a criminal offence?
