Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Criminal; wicked; contrary to law or right.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Criminal; wicked; contrary to law, right, or dury.

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  • adjective criminal; wicked; illegal

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Examples

  • The biggest reason why David Pepper won't do nothing about the crimes on U.C. campus is because Cincinnati City Councilmember John Cranley teaches law at U.C., therefore, Pepper is leaving it up to Cranley to clean up crimeful Clifton!

    Rapes, assaults, robberies reported near UC Nathaniel Livingston 2005

  • At those devotional gatherings there was a simple petition offered to the Giver of all good that He should guard them during the night from the crimeful visitations of wicked men who coveted that which did not belong to them, and who did not shrink from murder in order to get it.

    The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Walter Runciman 1892

  • Plymouth to serve a writ of Habeas Corpus to claim the Emperor's person, and the pity is that an honoured name should have been associated with a mission so crimeful and an occasion so full of illimitable consequences to England's boasted generosity.

    The Tragedy of St. Helena Walter Runciman 1892

  • What is the purpose of all this crimeful frenzy, this berserker rampage?

    Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque 2009

  • And this was equally true of, say, Nazi Germany or Stalin's Soviet Union, and other regimes imbued with a crimeful essence.

    Welcome to Chris Floyd's Empire Burlesque 2009

  • In short, an open and careful eye made Owse Gandolo the great success he was, and when the Demi-Monarch sought amongst his government for an official to clean up crimeful Tapper Town, Gandolo was the first name on every adviser’s lips.

    GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward 2008

  • a source of infinite danger, and for that barbaric reason his health was allowed to be slowly and surely undermined until death took him from the restraining influences and crimeful policy of the Courts of

    The Tragedy of St. Helena Walter Runciman 1892

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