crimelessness
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a word derived from
crime.
crimenounan action or an instance of negligence that is deemed injurious to the public welfare or morals or to the interests of the state and that is legally prohibited.
Example Sentences
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But there was unquestionably some connection between London's high wartime morale and London's unprecedented crimelessness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But there is another fact which justifies this grant, and that is the extraordinary crimelessness in a political sense of the whole of that country.
From Liberalism and the Social Problem by Winston Churchill