criminally
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6.1
- adverb
- /ˈkrɪmɪnəli/
- Informal
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escandalosamente
- He was at a minimum criminally reckless with billions of dollars.
- criminally insane
- criminally negligent
- criminally stupid
How can you be so criminally bad at this?
- How can you be so criminally bad at this?
- And I typed in what I wanted and I found the most charming, criminally handsome man you ever want to meet.
- So we've got this criminally wasteful amount of foam in a box to ship the CPU to go with the wasteful use of sand.
Examples
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Hoping or expecting technology or market forces to "save" them is criminally irresponsible.
Blog text (2) -
Oh, I think that is criminally careless of the authorities...
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How can you be so criminally bad at this?
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And it's, it's criminally easy to, to make this, to make this thing do things.
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It's... Criminally overdue, is what it is.
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To the real me, this was demeaning at best, criminally abusive at worst.
Blog text (23) -
That's not just repugnant and disturbing but bordering on the criminally negligent.
Blog text (2) -
" Why not? " Liddy said, trying to rein in her impatience with these criminally ignorant, naive children.
Fiction book (1990) -
The two-party system has provided a choice for criminally stupid—or just flat-out criminal.
Blog text (19) -
The service at that restaurant was criminally bad, with our food arriving an hour late.
Synonyms
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4.3
In a way that is very wrong or extreme
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8.2
In an extremely bad and obvious way that shocks people
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8.4
In a way that deserves blame for doing something wrong
To a very high degree
Antonyms
How Badly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Criminally comes from the word crime, which goes back to Latin crimen meaning 'charge' or 'guilt'. So when we say something is 'criminally' bad we mean it is as wrong or shameful as a crime, often used for strong emphasis rather than to say a real crime happened.