as in crime
activities that are in violation of the laws of the state
a report on the drop in criminality in large urban centers
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Recent Examples of criminality
Rank, whose company recently remade Ingmar Bergsson classic film Faithless as a European TV series, praised Adolescence for matching up the genre beats of a crime story with the higher concepts around criminality, toxic masculinity and family, and the one-shot filming techniques.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
The first is to expose Hamas’s criminality and the futility of its terror, which has led to the annihilation of Gaza.
—Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
His manipulating voters with their own tax dollars borders on criminality.
—John Moorlach, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
The choice is to wait until individuals cross legal lines, or reach them earlier, before curiosity turns into criminality.
—Chris Wysopal, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
The first is to expose Hamas’s criminality and the futility of its terror, which has led to the annihilation of Gaza.
—Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2025
His manipulating voters with their own tax dollars borders on criminality.
—John Moorlach, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
The choice is to wait until individuals cross legal lines, or reach them earlier, before curiosity turns into criminality.
—Chris Wysopal, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for criminality
crime
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Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?—
Ingrid Vasquez,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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As Robert Kalmey observes, this moment encapsulates what Roman historians thought of as the worst of all of Octavius’s crimes against the state before becoming emperor.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Criminality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/criminality. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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