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Definition of crime-ridden in English: crime-riddenadjective (of a place) having a high incidence of criminal activity. a crime-ridden neighbourhood Example sentencesExamples - With her worldly possessions in a shopping bag, she wandered about in the downtown crime-ridden district of the nation's capital, appearing disoriented.
- Initially some headteachers were cautious about the scheme because they believed that by taking part they would stigmatise their school as unruly or crime-ridden.
- Their duties include tackling anti-social behaviour, helping regular officers and providing reassurance and a presence in some of the most crime-ridden communities.
- In our crime-ridden society, it is little wonder that the police struggle to cope.
- A crime-ridden area of Bradford is to get a £250,000 revamp.
- Potential tenants, put off by the estate's reputation as a crime-ridden poverty trap, simply don't want to live there and homes have stood empty for years.
- Worried residents fear problems on a crime-ridden council estate will erupt into a full-scale riot unless police clamp down on hell-raising teenagers.
- The area is dirty, congested and crime-ridden.
- Over the past four years, 13 newsmen have been killed in the country's crime-ridden southwest.
- If one went by media depictions one would think his neighbourhood is a crime-ridden slum.
- People thought it was a crime-ridden place, but nothing could have been further from the truth.
- It reads like the dairy of a former junkie whose crime-ridden ways catch up with him.
- Are you one of those who choose to stay home on weekends fearful of going out onto our crime ridden streets?
- Working with the council and police, they turned the estate around from a crime-ridden blackspot to a place where people bought their own homes.
- Safety campaigners have cleaned up their neighbourhood by closing a network of crime-ridden alleys in York.
- It was a dirty and crime ridden city.
Definition of crime-ridden in US English: crime-riddenadjective (of a place) having a high incidence of criminal activity. a crime-ridden neighborhood Example sentencesExamples - Over the past four years, 13 newsmen have been killed in the country's crime-ridden southwest.
- People thought it was a crime-ridden place, but nothing could have been further from the truth.
- Their duties include tackling anti-social behaviour, helping regular officers and providing reassurance and a presence in some of the most crime-ridden communities.
- Initially some headteachers were cautious about the scheme because they believed that by taking part they would stigmatise their school as unruly or crime-ridden.
- Working with the council and police, they turned the estate around from a crime-ridden blackspot to a place where people bought their own homes.
- The area is dirty, congested and crime-ridden.
- In our crime-ridden society, it is little wonder that the police struggle to cope.
- With her worldly possessions in a shopping bag, she wandered about in the downtown crime-ridden district of the nation's capital, appearing disoriented.
- Potential tenants, put off by the estate's reputation as a crime-ridden poverty trap, simply don't want to live there and homes have stood empty for years.
- It was a dirty and crime ridden city.
- A crime-ridden area of Bradford is to get a £250,000 revamp.
- It reads like the dairy of a former junkie whose crime-ridden ways catch up with him.
- Are you one of those who choose to stay home on weekends fearful of going out onto our crime ridden streets?
- Safety campaigners have cleaned up their neighbourhood by closing a network of crime-ridden alleys in York.
- Worried residents fear problems on a crime-ridden council estate will erupt into a full-scale riot unless police clamp down on hell-raising teenagers.
- If one went by media depictions one would think his neighbourhood is a crime-ridden slum.
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