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What is the adjective for criminalizing?

What's the adjective for criminalizing? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs crime, criminalize, incriminate, recriminate, criminalise, criminate and recriminalize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

criminal

Being against the law; forbidden by law.
Guilty of breaking the law.
Of or relating to crime or penal law.
(figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable, even if allowed by law.
Synonyms:

Examples:

“They have confessed to conspiracy to commit criminal damage to parked vehicles.”

“It was not enough that the criminal mind of the actor revealed a desire to do harm.”

“Gardner was in custody for stalking her, vandalizing her property, and making criminal threats to her.”

crimeless

Without crime.
Free from crime; innocent.
Synonyms:

crimefree

Examples:

“This suspension of discourse kept Danes crimeless and irreproachable despite their continuous encounter with colonial subjects.”

“Most of them dress in hats and suits, as though we had drifted into a crimeless gangster flick, while the women all conduct themselves like widows, or widows-to-be.”

“The European Union's determination to implement common penal provisions also in this field would contribute to provide Internet-users with a safe and 6 crimeless environment.”

criminative

(archaic) Charging with crime; accusing; criminatory.
Examples:

“They may be criminative, or exculpative, or aggravative, or evidential.”

“These we shall have occasion to distinguish hereafter by the name of criminative circumstances.”

criminatory

Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing.
Examples:

“Beyond that, the EEOC isn't very specific about where discriminatory criminatory use of background checks starts and ends.”

“Free or discounted parking may continue to be provided on a dis criminatory basis.”

incriminating

Causing, showing, or proving that one is guilty of wrongdoing.
Synonyms:

damaging, condemnatory, compromising, damning, convictable, convicting, accusatory, indicting

Examples:

“The detective found incriminating evidence that placed the suspect at the scene of the crime.”

crimeful

criminal; wicked; illegal

criminogenic

tending to produce crime or criminals
Synonyms:

corruptive, perversive, subversive, corrupting, rebellious, troublemaking

Examples:

“This reflects their psychological neediness, rather than a criminogenic behavioral pattern.”

“Harristown House offered an option other than custody in cases where addiction had been identified as being the main criminogenic need.”

“That reflects their psychological neediness, rather than a criminogenic behavioural pattern.”

recriminatory

In the way of recriminations.
Synonyms:

accusing, counterattacking, retaliatory, counter-accusatory

Examples:

“The heated argument between the two friends turned recriminatory as they each started accusing each other of betraying their trust.”

“Due to fear of a recriminatory reception in Senegal, her editors advised her to adopt a pseudonym.”

“Later he usually makes some recriminatory remark against those that kept their seats.”

criminological

Of or pertaining to criminology
Synonyms:

forensic, criminal, investigative

Examples:

“The themes of gender, race, class and public policy will continue to demand the attention of legal and criminological scholars.”

“It is a criminological commonplace that it is counter-productive to pass unenforceable laws because this breeds general contempt for the law.”

“The Inspector General would, of course, act as first criminological aid to the Governor, by whom he would be guided practically.”

criminalizable

Capable of being criminalized.

crimelike

Resembling or characteristic of crime.

criminall

Archaic spelling of criminal.

criminalish

(rare) Characteristic of a criminal.

incriminatory

That incriminates.
Synonyms:

Examples:

“It seems that the incriminatory photos were taken in the vicinity of Decani.”

“Either counsel had agreed or the judge had ruled that these were incriminatory admissions which had not been made under caution and should not, therefore, go before the jury.”

“This, by definition, extends equally to the incriminatory and potentially exculpatory material exchanged between the parties.”

recriminative

recriminatory
Examples:

“A recriminative war of words, from platform and from press, was waged, not only in Pomfret, but throughout the county and state.”

“Punishment for its own sake, whilst perhaps psychologically satisfying the need for recriminative justice, is most costly, as it does little to control re-offending.”

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