Definition of crime

"crime" in the noun sense

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

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

"a long record of crimes"

2. crime

an evil act not necessarily punishable by law

"crimes of the heart"

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Quotations for crime

The crime of cowards. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Absence is all love's crime. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Remorse is the fruit of crime. [ Juvenal ]

Count it a crime to let a truth slip. [ Robert Browning ]

In persons grafted in a serious trust,
Negligence is a crime. [ William Shakespeare ]

One crime is everything; two, nothing. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Knowledge renders a crime inexcusable. [ Proverb ]

Contrivances of the time
For sowing broadcast the seeds of crime. [ Longfellow ]

No crime is so great as daring to excel. [ Churchill ]

The atrocious crime of being a young man. [ William Pitt ]

Murder itself is past all expiation,
The greatest crime that nature doth abhor. [ Goffe ]

Crime, as well as virtue, has its degrees. [ Racine ]

Murder may pass unpunish'd for a time.
But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. [ Dryden ]

The greater the man, the greater the crime. [ Proverb ]

To be left alone
And face to face with my own crime, had been
Just retribution. [ Longfellow ]

He has committed the crime who profits by it. [ Seneca ]

Not all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lines of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds or consecrate a crime. [ Byron ]

Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. [ Byron ]

War is a crime which involves all other crimes. [ Brougham ]

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Is there a crime
Beneath the roof of heaven, that stains the soul
Of man, with more infernal hue, than damn'd
Assassination? [ Cibber ]

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

It is the crime that's the disgrace, not the scaffold. [ Corneille ]

The number of the malefactors, authorizes not the crime. [ Proverb ]

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. [ Southey ]

Reputation is often got without merit, and lost without crime. [ Proverb ]

He who overlooks one crime, invites the commission of another. [ Publius Syrus ]

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime. [ Horace ]

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness; too much insensibility creates crime. [ Talleyrand ]

Floral apostles! that in dewy splendor weep without woe, and blush without a crime. [ Horace Smith ]

To err is human: but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [ Alfieri ]

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink. [ Judge Coleridge ]

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards. [ Johnson ]

If you bethink yourself of any crime unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace, solicit for it straight. [ William Shakespeare ]

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth. [ Samuel Johnson ]

One could not commit a greater crime against public interests than to show indulgence to those who violate them. [ Richelieu ]

Health is so necessary to all the duties as well as pleasures of life that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly. [ Dr. Johnson ]

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. [ Charles Dickens ]

It would take long to enumerate how great an amount of crime was everywhere perpetrated; even the report itself came short of the truth. [ Ovid ]

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do. [ Bovee ]

That elevation of mind which we see in moments of peril, if it is uncontrolled by justice, and strives only for its own advantage, becomes a crime. [ Cicero ]

There is no vice or crime that does not originate in self-love; and there is no virtue that does not grow from the love of others out of and beyond self. [ Anon ]

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the later to a soul changed for the better. [ Joubert ]

Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force. [ Pascal ]

Doubt is not itself a crime. All manner of doubt, inquiry about all manner of objects, dwells in every reasonable mind. It is the mystic working of the mind on the object it is getting to know about. [ Carlyle ]

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Gallantry, though a fashionable crime, is a very detestable one; and the wretch who pilfers from us in the hour of distress is an innocent character compared to the plunderer who wantonly robs us of happiness and reputation. [ Rev. H. Kelley ]

One could not wish any man to fall into a fault; yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a crime even, that the morality which is in a man first unfolds itself, and what of strength he as a man possesses, now when all else is gone from him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Own or Confess? The verb to own means to possess, but it has borrowed the additional and objectionable meaning of to confess, to acknowledge; as, He owned his crime. A man owns a house, but confesses a larceny, or a murder, neither of which offenses is hardly susceptible of ownership. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

To be a finite being is no crime, and to be the Infinite is not to be a creditor. As man was not consulted he does not find himself a party in a bargain, but a child in the household of love. Reconciliation, therefore, is not the consequence of paying a debt, or procuring atonement for an injury, but an organic process of the human life. [ John Weiss ]

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part. [ Frederick Saunders ]

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanketmaking and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace. [ Ruskin ]

crime in Scrabble®

The word crime is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters crime:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word crime

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crime in Words With Friends™

The word crime is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters crime:

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Words within the letters of crime

2 letter words in crime (4 words)

3 letter words in crime (3 words)

4 letter words in crime (6 words)

5 letter words in crime (1 word)

crime + 1 blank (7 words)

Words containing the sequence crime

Words with crime in them (2 words)

Words that end with crime (3 words)

Word Growth involving crime

Shorter words in crime

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Longer words containing crime

crimeless crimelessness

crimeproof

crimes cybercrimes

crimewave crimewaves

cybercrime cybercrimes

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