Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Free from crime; innocent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Free from crime; innocent.
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- adjective Without
crime . - adjective Free from crime;
innocent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The intention behind not allowing the registration of cases is to keep the crime figures low thereby projecting a crimeless state.
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The cops in the future can't handle the job because "San Angeles" in the 21st century is a peaceful, crimeless, utterly sterile place -- a fascist Eden of unending banality where cocktail pianists sing old commercial jingles, fines are given for profanity, where sex and cholesterol are illegal and all restaurants are called Taco Bell.
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Bahaha, yeah, outing an intelligence officer during a time of war – what a ‘crimeless incident’.
Think Progress » Smears, Lies and Videotape: A Leak Scandal Documentary 2005
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They were striving toward umma, a perfect, classless, crimeless Muslim community infused with the "spirit of God."
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They were striving toward umma, a perfect, classless, crimeless Muslim community infused with the "spirit of God."
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They were striving toward umma, a perfect, classless, crimeless Muslim community infused with the "spirit of God."
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You reserve the possibility that maybe he tripped, or was otherwise somehow a “crimeless victim”?
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The front door, unlocked on the crimeless island, opened.
The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985
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(Laughter) Well, why should a man not get younger when he administers justice among so crimeless. and so virtuous a population as Toronto?
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So crimeless is the country, however, that in a population of over thirty millions less than twenty such nominations are necessary; I must, however, admit that these score are aided by several thousand minor judges who are appointed in a different manner.
On Something Hilaire Belloc 1911
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