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Example sentences for "criminal"

Lexicographically close words:
crik; crime; crimen; crimes; crimina; criminalistic; criminality; criminall; criminally; criminals
  1. It would seem that, to make his loyalty apparent, he imposed harsh sentences or punishments on nearly every white person convicted, and he committed personally some criminal offenses.

  2. This thing's got to be settled; with these new English orders, it's suicide for us to withhold any force that can stop this criminal strike.

  3. A leading magazine recently said that the criminal administration in this state is more scandalous than in any state in the union.

  4. We're too busy to waste time around the criminal court.

  5. So far from discerning the desperate criminal who has "done time" once, and deserved it over and over again, the superior but superficial observer might have imagined that he detected a certain element of folly in my face.

  6. THE LAST LAUGH As I have had occasion to remark elsewhere, the pick of our exploits, from a frankly criminal point of view, are of least use for the comparatively pure purposes of these papers.

  7. Even in my utter bewilderment, however, the instinctive caution of the real criminal did not desert me.

  8. And as he stood at his full height, a courteous but ironic smile under the cropped moustache, he looked what he was, criminal or not.

  9. Abraham's conduct towards his servant-girl Hagar is both I disgraceful and inhuman, as he first destroyed her character and virtue by criminal intimacy, and then turned her and her child into the wilderness to starve (Gen.

  10. It is certainly a criminal waste of time and money to spend it by the million for churches and priests to propagate doctrines which they themselves admit possess no real intrinsic importance.

  11. We are only rowing against the current in attempting to put down evil with our present system of moral ethics, which treats the criminal as a wicked being instead of an unfortunate, sin-sick brother.

  12. Greatly reassured, and indeed quite convinced that wherever the criminal lurked at that moment he was not in the same room with me, I turned my attention to my surroundings, which had many points of interest.

  13. The Sultan, in communicating to the criminal the despatches he had received, gave immediate orders that he should be shut up in close confinement, waiting the sentence which an enraged father should pass against him.

  14. His anger re-awoke, and he ordered the criminal to be brought forth.

  15. You seem not to have been born for the criminal profession you follow.

  16. Constrained by these observations, the King commanded the criminal to be brought before him.

  17. If a criminal must die, give orders for my punishment: I await it at your feet.

  18. The young Superintendent, having made an end of speaking, Bohetzad, drowned in thought, dismissed the assembly, and remanded the criminal to prison.

  19. He resumed his first resolutions, and sent for the criminal to his presence.

  20. Do not pardon me," added he: "I am a monster; and so much the more criminal as I am at this moment placed beyond the reach of the law.

  21. Sire," said they to him, "everybody is surprised to see the execution of the criminal delayed.

  22. He again ordered the punishment to be deferred, and the criminal was carried back to prison.

  23. He did not correct this opinion in his second letter, and advised the King of Egypt to set the criminal at liberty.

  24. The man who spoke was his father, and the supposed criminal his brother!

  25. The criminal procedure code has been amended to facilitate convictions and to accelerate trials.

  26. And what was done with some show of formality either of military or of criminal law, was as nothing, I fear, weighed against what was done without any formality at all.

  27. Criminal Investigation Department) of the Government keeps a close watch over them; the government officers keep themselves informed of their movements and doings.

  28. Just as the criminal is generally a man of unusual energy and mental power directed into wrong channels, so the dunce is a pupil whose special powers and aptitudes have not revealed themselves in the routine of school life.

  29. And just as the criminal points to serious defects in our social system, so the dunce points to serious defects in our educational system.

  30. I believe that future generations will credit his activity in awakening the American conscience to almost criminal extravagance in exploiting our resources as one of the most practical displays of patriotism in National history.

  31. The service and execution throughout the commonwealth of the civil and criminal process and judgments of the courts of the states.

  32. These are the unofficial Botany Bays and Melillas of the world, where the criminal goes of his own accord, and not because his government has urged him to do so and paid his passage there.

  33. I don't want him to qualify for no Criminal Stakes.

  34. On February 18th she was suddenly arrested at Suedende by two officers of the Criminal Department, brought to the Berlin Police Department, and then to Division 7, that is, to the political division, and not to the criminal division.

  35. Every energetic peace move is prosecuted according to the criminal code.

  36. It consists in this--that people of criminal inclination, whose temptations are greater in the dangers which are facing them, are in the army in great numbers.

  37. In the criminal trials against Westkamp and comrades in Duesseldorf the defendants were first taken under the Schutzhaft, then under preventative arrest.

  38. We find that our criminal law, especially of late, has taken sharp measures against abortion, in order to protect our army strength.

  39. The state took its protecting hand away from the children; it is replaced by the reformatory and criminal justice, in order to meet these phenomena of human misery.

  40. My informant added with some pride that the criminal was not a Swiss, but an Italian.

  41. In his own bosom was brewed the hell-broth, potent to call up visions counselling tyranny and blood; and its ingredients were his own evil passions and criminal hopes.

  42. He was provided with an escort, and a letter from the king to the municipality of that city, requesting that the criminal might be delivered up.

  43. He was a black man awaiting the ceremony of initiation with much the same intensity of interest that enlivens the criminal at execution.

  44. The bold and criminal malignity of men's tongues and pens spared not even the king on the occasion; but that prince's character seems rather to have failed in the extreme of facility and humanity, than in that of cruelty and violence.

  45. The gunsmith was anxious that this should not be; but his voice was overruled, and the criminal was carried in a cart to the scaffold.

  46. He makes a man, who revolutionized the world, act like an infamous criminal deserving the gallows.

  47. If I had killed you, no one would have called me an assassin; my attempt is criminal because it did not succeed.

  48. Certain useful ameliorations in the criminal legislation, amongst others total abolition of torture, completed the sum of edicts.

  49. Its criminal employment is usually intended to heighten sexual desire, and has frequently led to death.

  50. Norton brought against the Whig premier for criminal conversation with his wife.

  51. Criminal cases were to be tried before the judges of supreme court on circuit.

  52. In each division of the province there is a resident magistrate with primary jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters.

  53. This court is presided over by a chief justice, with five puisne judges, and has appellate civil and criminal jurisdiction for the Dominion.

  54. This vast territory was to be governed despotically from Quebec; the Roman Catholic church was given its old privileges in Canada; and the French civil law was established permanently side by side with the English criminal law.

  55. On the other hand, at nisi prius and on the criminal circuit, he was accused of frequently attempting unduly to influence juries in their estimate of the credibility of evidence.

  56. They became security for the payment of customs duties, and it was criminal for any other merchant to engage in the trade with foreigners.

  57. A sort of lazy greatness, which seemed, at a distance, criminal indifference, characterized him when in repose.

  58. Relatives are not, by the law, allowed to see a criminal during the first three months; after that time, they may.

  59. Had the mental capacity of this sovereign been equal to his criminal intent, even greater woe might have befallen the world.

  60. As for the royal criminal called Philip II.

  61. Well, as Danforth says, all that is over now, though I do not know but I expose myself to a criminal prosecution on the evidence of the very revelation I am making.

  62. The blacker the evidence develops against him, in a criminal action, or the less palpable become the merits of his case in a civil one, the more firmly they consider his counsel bound in honor to battle for a verdict.

  63. The prisoner was acquitted, and properly so, for some time thereafter the real criminal was brought to justice.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "criminal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aberrant; abnormal; abominable; actionable; anarchic; anarchistic; arrant; atrocious; bad; base; bastard; betrayer; black; blameworthy; bootleg; contraband; convict; corrupt; criminal; crook; crooked; culpable; damnable; dark; deceiver; delinquent; desperado; devious; disgraceful; dishonest; dishonorable; doubtful; dubious; evasive; evil; execrable; faulty; felon; felonious; fishy; flagitious; flagrant; flawed; foul; fraudulent; fugitive; gangster; guilty; heinous; ignominious; ill; illegal; illegitimate; illicit; immoral; impeachable; implicated; improper; inappropriate; inauspicious; incorrect; inculpated; indecorous; indictable; indirect; inexpedient; infamous; inferior; iniquitous; insidious; invalid; involved; irregular; jailbird; knavish; lawbreaker; lawless; low; malefactor; malevolent; miscreant; monstrous; naughty; nefarious; offender; outlaw; outlawed; peccant; prohibitive; punishable; questionable; rank; reprehensible; reprobate; rotten; sacrilegious; scandalous; scoundrel; shady; shameful; shameless; shifty; sinful; sinister; sinner; slippery; suspicious; swindler; terrible; terrorist; thief; thug; traitor; transgressor; triable; tricky; unauthorized; unconscientious; unconscionable; unconstitutional; underhanded; undue; unethical; unfit; unforgivable; unlawful; unofficial; unpardonable; unprincipled; unrighteous; unsavory; unscrupulous; unseemly; unskillful; unspeakable; unsuitable; untoward; unwarrantable; unwarranted; unworthy; vicious; vile; villain; villainous; wicked; wrong; wrongdoer; wrongful


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    criminal case; criminal cases; criminal causes; criminal court; criminal jurisprudence; criminal justice; criminal lunatic; criminal matters; criminal offense; criminal procedure; criminal prosecution; criminal psychology