crim.
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noun
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Example Sentences
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You don’t see our newspapers filled, as your’s are, with crim. cons, in high life.
From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick
“Well, since they did away with crim. cons, there’s nothing left for females but murders and divorces, worth speaking of.”
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Harris, Richard
As to Turkey as a question for a paper, I can only say as Lord Plunkett did of a crim. con. case: 'I'd like to have a hundred pounds to argue it either way.'
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund
The whisperings of side groups may have referred to it; but it was too old to be interesting—even to the most industrious dealers in crim. con. gossip.
From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne
Let us own, too, we were ashamed, as we had good right to be ashamed, of our old crim. con. law.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Lever, Charles James
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