Synonyms for criminal offence
crim·i·nal offence

Princeton's WordNet

1. crime, criminal offense, criminal offence, law-breakingnoun

   (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act

   "a long record of crimes"

Matched Categories

1. • Criminal Law
   • Offense

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1. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto:

   Instead of helping people, Croatia is encouraging masses and masses of people to commit a criminal offence - illegal crossing of the border is a criminal offense.

2. Jessie Majome:

   (Marrying a child) is a very serious criminal offence but if the law is not fully enforced, then we will continue having this problem.

3. Harlan F. Stone:

   If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.

4. Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko:

   We have taken the decision to introduce this special law to make doping, and those attempting to take performance-enhancing drugs, a criminal offence.

5. Edsger W. Dijkstra:

   The teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.