criminality
[krim-uh-nal-i-tee]
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Origin of criminality
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Examples from the Web for criminality
Contemporary Examples
Yes, a president needs courage to stand up to corruption and criminality in his own country.
We want the morality of a situation to match the criminality.
Christopher Darden Believes There May Be Justice Yet for TrayvonChristopher A. Darden, Michele Noble
July 15, 2013
What the military has to confront is criminality, not a hookup culture.
George Zimmerman pulled the trigger, but a larger ethos of devaluing life and the stereotypes of criminality loaded the gun.
And so it has proven over the past generation of the swiftest record reduction of criminality in American history.
Historical Examples
Weigh in the scales his criminality and the suffering he has undergone.
Justice (Second Series Plays)John Galsworthy
The criminality of the hysterical is always connected with the sexual functions.
Criminal ManGina Lombroso-Ferrero
Homicide forms 91% of the criminality of this group of offenders.
Criminal ManGina Lombroso-Ferrero
Criminality, again, is associated with feeble-mindedness in the most intimate way.
The Task of Social HygieneHavelock Ellis
He fancies that he is thus safeguarded against his own criminality.
Napoleon the LittleVictor Hugo
criminality
- the state or quality of being criminal
- (often plural) rare a criminal act or practice
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Word Origin and History for criminality
n.
1610s, from French criminalité, from Medieval Latin criminalitas, from Latin criminalis (see criminal).
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