life of crime

idiom

: habitual breaking of the law
He turned to a life of crime as a teenager.

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The late farmer from Wisconsin began his life of crime by digging up the fresh graveyards of women who resembled his mom, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025 Jeffrey, a divorced former Army Ranger, embarks on a sudden and inevitably ill-fated life of crime to help provide for his kids. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Oct. 2025 The Mastermind is about an art-school dropout who becomes a noncommittal carpenter, and then, in his 30s, decides to try out a life of crime by stealing some paintings from his local museum. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025 No Fury feels a little like entrapment: The Neptunes’ beats are alien, seductively bizarre; Pusha raps about the spoils of his life of crime with the sleazy charm of an incubus. Pitchfork, 30 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for life of crime

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“Life of crime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life%20of%20crime. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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