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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crime +‎ -less

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Examples

  • 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

  • They were striving toward umma, a perfect, classless, crimeless Muslim community infused with the "spirit of God."

    Among the Hostage-Takers 2004

  • They were striving toward umma, a perfect, classless, crimeless Muslim community infused with the "spirit of God."

    Among the Hostage-Takers 2004

  • They were striving toward umma, a perfect, classless, crimeless Muslim community infused with the "spirit of God."

    Among the Hostage-Takers 2004

  • 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

  • (Laughter) Well, why should a man not get younger when he administers justice among so crimeless. and so virtuous a population as Toronto?

    The British League of Nations 1920

  • 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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