Crime vs Crimeless - What's the difference?
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(countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
(uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
(uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) That which occasions crime.
* Spenser
To commit (s).
* 1987 , Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side (ISBN 0879723637), page 61:
Without crime.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 20, author=Martin Fackler, title=Honoring a Westerner Who Preserved Japan’s Folk Tales, work=New York Times
, passage=He found Japan to be a crimeless , almost Utopian society — a “fairyland” populated with “the most lovable people in the universe,” as he wrote. }}
Free from crime; innocent.
As a noun crime
is (countable) a specific act committed in violation of the law.As a verb crime
is to commit (s).As an adjective crimeless is
without crime.crime
English
(wikipedia crime)Noun
- Crime doesn’t pay.
- No crime' was thine, if 'tis no ' crime to love.
- the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "crime": organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.Synonyms
* (criminal acts collectively) delinquency, crime rate, criminalityHyponyms
* * * * * * *Derived terms
* crime against humanity * crime against nature * crimebuster * crime index * crime mapping * crime rate * criminal * criminal law * criminal record * criminology * decriminalization * international crime * organised crime / organized crime * sexual crime * war crime * white collar crimeVerb
(en-verb)- If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.
See also
* offence * sin * administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law) ----crimeless
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Adjective
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