criminal

adjlawless, felonious

nounperson who breaks the law

Synonyms for criminal

adj lawless, felonious

Antonyms for criminal

Word Origin & History

early 15c., from Middle French criminel (11c.), from Latin criminalis "pertaining to crime," from crimen (genitive criminis); see crime. Preserves the Latin -n-. Criminal law (or criminal justice) distinguished from civil in English at least since late 15c.

Example Sentences for criminal

Wastefulness, profligacy, or favoritism in public expenditures is criminal.

If we concede to the criminal the right to a further chance we concede it to ourselves.

She had been reared in a criminal family, which must excuse much.

It demanded that she be the criminal it had branded her—if she were to live at all.

Would it be so criminal when it all tends to what is honourable—marriage?

Was he not a criminal—was he not about to leave his position because of theft?

He appears to think that so distinguished a criminal should have been ducked in a tank of rosewater.

We of Tiverton never allowed our neighbor to forget her criminal lapse.

There ought to be a criminal code passed for hanging bakers.

I do not know whose heads are criminal, but I think I know whose are imbecile.

criminal

Synonyms for criminal

Antonyms for criminal

bad

badder

baddest

bandit

bandits

criminal

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Antonyms for criminal

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bad

badder

baddest

bandit

bandits

Synonyms for criminal

against the law