political criminal
noun
a person accused or convicted of a political crime.
political criminals
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pluralof political criminal.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Roosevelt lamented, “We never should have had an extradition treaty with Russia. Its conduct toward so-called political criminals is so inconceivably brutal and foolish.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2022
North Korea has resolutely denied running any forced-labor camps for political criminals, with a senior diplomat in North Korea’s mission to the United Nations saying in 2014, after the U.N.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2017
It was labeled the "pound cake" speech for this passage: "Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals," Cosby said.
From US News ● Jul. 7, 2015
From his federal district court bench in Chicago, Judge Hubert Will deplored the notion "that political criminals can get away with more than other criminals."
From Time Magazine Archive
Lombroso, Krafft, Ebbing, and others cite a long list of political criminals who must certainly be regarded as such indirect suicides.
From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Ernst Viktor Zenker
