great crime
Synonyms
Examples
The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.
But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us!
Clearly, a great crime had been committed against this boy; yet nobody who had had a hand in it - the judge, the jury, the prosecutor, the complaining witness, the policemen and jailers - felt any responsibility about it, because they were not acting as men, but as officials.
We consider it a great crime to work against the Western and Christian style of life: it is not just the bomber but the ideologist who is the danger.
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.