true-crime

[ troo-krahym ]

adjective

1. based on or describing an actual crime.

Example Sentences

If you have a PlayStation 2, Xbox, or GameCube and were alive in 2003, you should have been playing True Crime: Streets of LA.

From The Daily Beast

“This is an amazing story,” says Scott Andrew Selby, author of several books about heists and about true crime in Nazi Germany.

From The Daily Beast

Readers expecting an SVU-style true-crime story will be disappointed by Lost Girls.

From The Daily Beast

“We are going to pull off the TRUE crime of the century,” he announces to a noisy rally of minions.

From The Daily Beast

He went on to write the acclaimed true-crime story The Onion Field, and then wrote for movies and television.

From The Daily Beast

The true crime in the eyes of the republic being, to be rich.

From Project Gutenberg