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criminality

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. Mary McCarthy

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Cicero

We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality. Bashar al-Assad

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all. Antonin Scalia

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates. Jacob Zuma

Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality. Theresa May

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