What's The Definition Of Criminal?
[n] someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
[adj] guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man"
[adj] involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent"
[adj] bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife"
[adj] relating to crime or its punishment; "criminal court"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Criminal: condemnable |
crook |
deplorable |
felon |
felonious |
guilty |
illegal |
malefactor |
outlaw |
reprehensible |
wrong
Related Terms | Find terms related to Criminal: aberrant |
abnormal |
abominable |
actionable |
against the law |
amoral |
anarchic |
anarchistic |
anomic |
arraignable |
arrant |
at fault |
atrocious |
bad |
bad guy |
bad person |
base |
betrayer |
black |
blackguard |
black-market |
blamable |
blameworthy |
bootleg |
censurable |
chargeable |
conscienceless |
contraband |
contrary to law |
convict |
corrupt |
corrupted |
crook |
crooked |
culpable |
culprit |
damnable |
dark |
deceiver |
delinquent |
depraved |
desperado |
desperate criminal |
deviant |
devious |
disgraceful |
dishonest |
dishonorable |
double-dealer |
doubtful |
dubious |
evasive |
evil |
evildoer |
evildoing |
execrable |
faulty |
felon |
felonious |
fishy |
flagitious |
flagrant |
flawed |
foul |
fraudulent |
fugitive |
gallows bird |
gangster |
gaolbird |
guilty |
hardly the thing |
heinous |
hood |
hoodlum |
hooligan |
ignominious |
illegal |
illegitimate |
ill-got |
ill-gotten |
illicit |
immoral |
impeachable |
impermissible |
implicated |
improper |
inappropriate |
incorrect |
inculpated |
indecorous |
indictable |
indirect |
infamous |
iniquitous |
insidious |
involved |
irregular |
jailbird |
Judas |
justiciable |
knave |
knavish |
lawbreaker |
lawless |
low |
Mafioso |
malefactor |
malefactory |
malevolent |
malfeasant |
malfeasor |
miscreant |
misfeasor |
mobster |
monstrous |
naughty |
nefarious |
nonconstitutional |
nonlegal |
nonlicit |
not done |
not kosher |
not the thing |
off-base |
off-color |
offender |
outlaw |
outlawed |
out-of-line |
peccant |
public enemy |
punishable |
questionable |
quisling |
racketeer |
rank |
reprehensible |
reproachable |
reprobate |
reprovable |
rotten |
roughneck |
ruffian |
sacrilegious |
scandalous |
scofflaw |
scoundrel |
shady |
shameful |
shameless |
shifty |
sinful |
sinister |
sinner |
slippery |
suspicious |
swindler |
terrible |
terrorist |
thief |
thug |
to blame |
tough |
traitor |
transgressor |
trespasser |
triable |
tricky |
two-timer |
unallowed |
unauthorized |
unconscienced |
unconscientious |
unconscionable |
unconstitutional |
underhand |
underhanded |
under-the-counter |
under-the-table |
undue |
unethical |
unfit |
unfitting |
unforgivable |
unlawful |
unofficial |
unpardonable |
unprincipled |
unrighteous |
unsavory |
unscrupulous |
unseemly |
unspeakable |
unstatutory |
unstraightforward |
unsuitable |
unwarrantable |
unwarranted |
unworthy |
vicious |
vile |
villain |
villainous |
wicked |
without remorse |
without shame |
worker of ill |
wrong |
wrongdoer |
wrongdoing |
wrongful
See Also | abductor |
accessary |
accessory |
arsonist |
Billie the Kid |
blackmailer |
Bonney |
bootlegger |
briber |
coconspirator |
conspirator |
contrabandist |
desperado |
desperate criminal |
drug dealer |
drug peddler |
drug trafficker |
extortioner |
extortionist |
firebug |
fugitive |
fugitive from justice |
gangster |
gangster's moll |
goon |
gun moll |
habitual criminal |
highbinder |
highjacker |
hijacker |
hood |
hoodlum |
incendiary |
James |
Jesse James |
kidnapper |
law offender |
lawbreaker |
liquidator |
MacGregor |
machinator |
mafioso |
manslayer |
mobster |
moll |
mooncurser |
moonshiner |
murderer |
offender |
parolee |
peddler |
plotter |
probationer |
punk |
pusher |
racketeer |
raper |
rapist |
recidivist |
repeater |
Rob Roy |
Robert MacGregor |
runner |
scofflaw |
smuggler |
snatcher |
stealer |
strong-armer |
suborner |
thief |
thug |
tough |
toughie |
traitor |
treasonist |
violator |
William H. Bonney |
wrongdoer
Criminal In Webster's Dictionary
\Crim"i*nal\ (kr?m"?-nal), a. [L. criminalis, fr.
crimen: cf. F. criminel. See {Crime}.]
1. Guilty of crime or sin.
The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us
criminal in the sight of God. --Rogers.
2. Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an
act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness.
Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications
of vice, not criminal in themselves. --Addison.
3. Relating to crime; -- opposed to civil; as, the criminal
code.
The officers and servants of the crown, violating
the personal liberty, or other right of the subject
. . . were in some cases liable to criminal process.
--Hallam.
{Criminal action} (Law), an action or suit instituted to
secure conviction and punishment for a crime.
{Criminal conversation} (Law), unlawful intercourse with a
married woman; adultery; -- usually abbreviated, crim.
con.
{Criminal law}, the law which relates to crimes.
\Crim"i*nal\, n.
One who has commited a crime; especially, one who is found
guilty by verdict, confession, or proof; a malefactor; a
felon.
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