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  • adjective Plagued with crime.

Etymologies

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crime +‎ -ridden

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Examples

  • Drivers of New York's livery cabs, which often venture into crimeridden neighbourhoods where the traditional Yellow Cab drivers fear to go, are to be issued with bullet-proof vests to protect them from potentially-dangerous fares.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • It's the kind of frightening event that happens far too often in crimeridden neighborhoods like on Chicago's West Side.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • All this striving and seeking will be for naught if there once again arises the perception, however mistaken it may be, that New York City is a crimeridden ruin where gangs of thugs roam the streets while law-abiding citizens cower in fear behind locked doors and gated, barred windows.

    Queens Gazette 2010

  • 'violent', 'crimeridden' ,'poor', 'dangerous'; and 'corrupt' thrown in just in case the Brits start to think that the non-Anglo-Saxon world just might not be as bad as they thought.

    The Guardian World News Andrew Culf 2010

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