criminal
bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,726 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,101 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure also: condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious a criminal waste of talenta deplorable act of violence
- guilty of crime or serious offense criminal in the sight of God and man
- involving or being or having the nature of a crime also: felonious a criminal offensecriminal abuse
noun
- someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime also: felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor
criminal in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I'm a lawyer, and I've had some criminal practice.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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And this is not all: they talk of entering a criminal complaint.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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It was by this, her least criminal emotion, that Varney led her to the worst of her crimes.
Lucretia — Volume 06 · Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton · Chapter 1
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And at the mere word the criminal Northover suddenly fell into his great office chair and shouted with a volleying laughter.
The Club of Queer Trades · G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton · Chapter 1
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The pain seems little, and yet the effect to the spectator, and the preparation to the criminal, is very striking and chilling.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement — No. 474 · Various · Chapter 1