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Crime

noun

(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act. Synonyms: criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offence, offense.

An evil act not necessarily punishable by law.

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"Crime" Quotes from Famous Books

... could not bear to have the day come to an end. The doctor spoke to her as if she were grown up and understood everything, and this pleased her. It is very hard to be constantly reminded that one is a child, as if it were a crime against society. Dr. Leslie, unlike many others, did not like children because they were children; he now and then made friends with one, just as he added now and then to his narrow circle of grown ...

— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett

... returned the abbe. "Come back at midnight. I shall be ready to celebrate the only funeral service that it is in our power to offer in expiation of the crime ...

— An Episode Under the Terror • Honore de Balzac

... to have any doubt on that point—and then in conclusion I would add that after Southern California, I knew I wouldn't care for the climate Up There. Then I would step serenely off into eternity, secure in the belief that, no matter how heinous my crime might have been, all the local papers would give ...

— Roughing it De Luxe • Irvin S. Cobb

... hills the crime of infidelity among wives is almost unknown; so also harlots and courtesans are ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... of furze sticking to it. She picked these off; and as she did so, accurate remembrance and simple recollection of facts returned to her, and the succession was so complete that the effect was equivalent to a re-enduring of the crime, and with a foreknowledge of it, as if to sharpen its horror and increase the sense of the pollution. The vague hills, the vague sea, the sweet glow of evening—she saw it all again. And as if afraid that her brain, now strained like a body on the rack, would ...

— Celibates • George Moore

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