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- adjective Plagued with
crime .
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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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
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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
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'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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