criminality
- noun
- /ˌkrɪməˈnælɪti/
- Harboured and funded by people involved in serious criminality, of that I am sure.
- criminality and corruption
- criminality and violence
- criminality and substance abuse
So I've just told you about two decades worth of criminality by Clive Davis.
- So I've just told you about two decades worth of criminality by Clive Davis.
- That doesn't excuse criminality in any lane.
- So when they cross the line into criminality, that's when the authorities become involved.
- That's just cyber criminality run amok.
- I think the biggest problem that we have though, right now is the presumption of criminality.
- I mean, it's meant to instill fear in the public in addition to being able to carry out acts of criminality with the cloak of anonymity.
- So with all this criminality that I have told you that Clive Davis is perpetrated, he has not spent one day in jail.
- By the way, entrepreneur, criminal, criminality, they are the mindset is the same.
- And yeah, when you get when you get back, the criminality doesn't stop though, does it?
- This guy is been engaged in all kind of criminality and he hasn't spent one day in jail.
- So, you know, criminality, yeah, whatever.
- So an underclass Muslim who is maybe, maybe was involved in criminality of some kind.
- Charlie, my stepdad, he was in high criminality.
- How do they know that there wasn't all kinds of criminality on that?
- They've been born and raised in criminality.
Examples
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The financial services industry seems to have a level of criminality that is somewhat distinctive.
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Social stratification, criminality, and violence seem so overwhelming that they require deep structural explanation.
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But but, yeah, always involved in criminality, always in and out of jail.
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All right, there was no criminality found.
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We're really serious about this type of criminality.
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What is bad is when that kind of criminality is fought by the judicial system.
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That very serious allegations of criminality were not going to be investigated, that there was going to be no response.
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Portugal is a country with low criminality and practically no terrorism.
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The patterns were there: poverty, abuse, history of criminality in the family, impulsiveness.
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In recent years, the rise of gang violence has increased the level of criminality in many neighborhoods.
Synonyms
An action people see as wrong even if it is not illegal
Very bad actions that hurt other people
A state of being against the law
Something that the law does not allow
Not following the law
Very bad actions that break the law
A situation in which many people take part in illegal acts
Being involved in illegal acts
The degree to which an act is serious and illegal
A state of being illegal or forbidden by law
Actions that cheat people to get their money
Antonyms
How Criminal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Criminality comes from crime ('a bad or illegal act') plus the ending -ity ('state' or 'condition'), and it is related to the word criminal. So, criminality means the 'state of crime'—the presence or amount of crime in a person or place.