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Criminality   /krˌɪmənˈælɪti/   Listen
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Criminality  n.  The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt. "This is by no means the only criterion of criminality."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Criminality" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the present time I have had the honour of being elected an honourary member of numerous humanitarian organisations such as "The League of Peace," "The League for Combating Juvenile Criminality," "The Society of the Friends of Man," and others. Besides, at the request of the editor of one of the most widely read newspapers, I am to begin next month a series of public lectures, for which purpose I am going on a tour together ...
— The Crushed Flower and Other Stories • Leonid Andreyev

... merely a question of a few cents more a day for the necessaries of life, or of a few cents less a day for wages. Far more is at stake—the health or sickness of little babies, the education or ignorance of children, virtue or vice in young daughters, honesty or criminality in young sons, the working power of bread-winners, the integrity of families, the provision for old age—in a word, the welfare and happiness or the misery and degradation of the plain people are involved ...
— The Fight For Conservation • Gifford Pinchot

... been repeatedly cautioned, kindly and unkindly, intelligently and unintelligently, against his alleged tendency to confuse recognized standards of morality by extenuating lives of recklessness, and often criminality, with a single solitary virtue. He might easily show that he has never written a sermon, that he has never moralized or commented upon the actions of his heroes, that he has never voiced a creed or obtrusively demonstrated an ethical opinion. He might easily allege that ...
— The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales • Bret Harte

... in the Anarchist party which defied the science of the psychological analyst, so strangely and intricately were the most heterogeneous qualities blended in certain of their number—fanaticism, heroism, criminality, and not unfrequently a ...
— A Girl Among the Anarchists • Isabel Meredith

... to have turned too short on an old companion. It would perhaps, too, have been dangerous, since unpleasant discoveries might have met the public eye. It looked very much as if, mutually conscious of criminality, they had agreed to be silent, ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles


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