Definition of crimes

"crimes" 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 crimes

Petty laws breed great crimes. [ Ouida ]

Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes. [ Hannah More ]

Among our crimes oblivion may be Bet. [ Dryden ]

As you from crimes would pardon'd be.
Let your indulgence set me free. [ William Shakespeare ]

Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Crimes may be secret, but yet not secure. [ Proverb ]

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

Success makes some species of crimes honourable. [ Seneca ]

History is only a record of crimes and misfortunes. [ Voltaire ]

How enormous appear the crimes we have not committed! [ Mme. Necker ]

Few are so wicked an to take delight in crimes unprofitable. [ Dryden ]

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world. [ Epictetus ]

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues, an enemy inflames his crimes. [ Addison ]

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers. [ Johnson ]

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [ La Bruyere ]

To consume an honest soul with remorse is the greatest of all crimes. [ Mademoiselle Clairon ]

Crimes succeed by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay. [ Tacitus ]

Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings. [ Landor ]

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them. [ Bruyere ]

The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years! [ Percival ]

He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him. [ Young ]

We carry our neighbour's failings in sight, we throw our own crimes over our own shoulders. [ Proverb ]

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance, of justice: injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. [ Dr. Johnson ]

It is not enough plagues, wars, and famine rise to lash our crimes, but must our wives be wise? [ Young ]

Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. [ William Shakespeare ]

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes. [ Southern ]

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. [ Pliny ]

The pure in heart are slow to credit calumnies, because they hardly comprehend what motives can be inducements to the alleged crimes. [ Jane Porter ]

How different the fate of men who commit the same crimes! For the same villany one man goes to the gallows, and another is raised to a throne.

Follies committed by sensible people, extravagances said by clever people, crimes committed by honest people: this is the history of revolutions. [ De Bonald ]

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even for our virtues. [ Balzac ]

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart, might have crimes that were inexplicable. [ Montesquieu ]

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]

crimes in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

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crimes in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 12

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Words containing the sequence crimes

Words that start with crimes (1 word)

Words with crimes in them (1 word)

Words that end with crimes (2 words)

Word Growth involving crimes

Shorter words in crimes

me rime crime

rim rime crime

me rime rimes

rim rime rimes

Longer words containing crimes

cybercrimes