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  • noun the state of being a criminal

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Examples

  • Otherwise, we are merely calling criminalism by the more respected name

    Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009

  • This raises the prospect of a worrying scenario: A decapitated Naxalite movement splinters into smaller, highly localized groups that degenerate into ideologically neutral, parochial criminalism.

    Outgunning India's Maoists Isn't Enough Vikas Kumar 2010

  • Their business model isn't based on marketing warfare, it's based on _total _warfare -- and it's not based on cutthroat capitalism, it's based on cutthroat _criminalism_.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

  • He thinks that stigmata of degeneration are probably better correlated with mental defect and also with nutritional or environmental conditions than with criminalism as such.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

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