criminality
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Ramírez’s personal politics would be supplanted by crude criminality; beginning as a revolutionary, he ended up as a money-grubbing freelance mercenary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Constitution, and subsequent American practice that it reaches corruption in office for the personal gain of oneself or one’s family, serious criminality, and direct violations of significant provisions of the Constitution.
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
Police Scotland investigated the incident but found no evidence of criminality.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Mr. de la Espriella’s pledge to restore peace by confronting criminality head-on was a big vote-getter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Even when released from the system’s formal control, the stigma of criminality lingers.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
The government and the military are stepping up actions “to minimize the criminalities along the oil production lines,” said Horatius Egua, a senior official at the petroleum ministry.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2022
And his knowledge, especially of criminalities and the workings of crooked minds, seemed very marvellous to those who sought him out.
From The Penalty by Howard Chandler Christy
But besides this scale for classification, the military law, to which cadets, as part of the army, are amenable, refers all immoralities and criminalities to a military tribunal.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various
