criminal
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
criminal/ˈkrɪmɪnl/
▶noun a person who has committed a crime. ▶adjective
- 1 relating to or constituting a crime.
- 2 informal deplorable and shocking.
– derivatives
criminality /-ˈnalɪti/ noun,
criminally adverb.
criminality /-ˈnalɪti/ noun,
criminally adverb.
'criminal' also found in these Oxford entries:
acquit
- acquittal
- all-points bulletin
- arraign
- arrest
- arson
- assize
- baddy
- blackmail
- bounty hunter
- Camorra
- CID
- civil
- civil law
- Common Serjeant
- conditional discharge
- convict
- conviction
- Cosa Nostra
- county court
- crim
- criminal conversation
- criminalize
- criminal law
- criminal libel
- criminal record
- criminogenic
- crook
- Crown court
- Crown prosecutor
- cut-throat
- cybercrime
- decriminalize
- desperado
- desperate
- dishonourable discharge
- dock
- dragnet
- evidence
- felo de se
- first offender
- form
- foul play
- fraud
- frightener
- gang bang
- gangbuster
- gangland
- goombah
