Noun
high crime (plural high crimes)
(law) A major crime or wrongdoing, notably one subject to trial before the highest courts which may impose the gravest punishments.
Antonyms: misdemeanour, petty crime
Lese majesty used to be a high crime, for which royal or imperial courts often put offenders to death.
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
The power of impeachment is given by this Constitution, to bring great offenders to punishment. It is calculated to bring them to punishment for crimes which it is not easy to describe, but which every one must be convinced is a high crime and misdemeanor against the government. James Iredell
He also called on voters to support Republican John Cox for governor in California, a state he called "High Tax, High Crime California." Source: Internet
That said, to see the House and Senate both determining that sexual harassment is a High Crime and Misdemeanor is extremely unlikely. Source: Internet