英语词汇“criminal”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	criminal
释义	crim·i·nal I. \ˈkrimən^əl, -mnəl\ adjective Etymology: Middle English cryminall, from Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French criminel, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimin-, crimen crime + -alis -al — more at crime 1. : involving or being a crime < criminal carelessness > 2. : relating to crime or its punishment < a criminal action > — distinguished from civil 3. : guilty of crime or serious offense < he created a government that was frankly criminal — Eric Linklater > < criminal in the sight of God and man > 4. a. : reprehensible, blameworthy, disgraceful < she was a criminal idiot to marry a man with his record > < it was one of those criminal adventures that marked the road of the Communist International during the twenties — D.J.Dallin > b. : excessive, extortionate < saddle horses to be had not too far from the campus, but the rates were absolutely criminal — Edward Newhouse > 5. : of or suitable to a criminal < the twists of the criminal mind > 6. : concerned with crime or criminal law II. noun (-s) Etymology: French criminel, from criminel, adjective 1. : one that has committed a crime : malefactor 2. : a person who has been convicted of one or more crimes < habitual criminals > Synonyms: felon, convict, malefactor, culprit, delinquent: these words mean, in common, one guilty of a transgression or an offense, especially against the law. criminal designates one who commits some serious violation of the law, of public trust, or common decency, as vicious unwarranted attack, embezzlement, or murder. felon, the legal term for one popularly called a criminal, designates one guilty of a felony, which usually with legal exactness covers all lawbreaking punishable by death or prolonged confinement (as in a state penitentiary) and is distinguished from a misdemeanor < men were transported with the worst felons for poaching a few hares or pheasants — G.B.Shaw > < the casual or accidental felon who is impelled into a misdeed by force of circumstances — R.S.Banay > convict designates one convicted of a crime or felony but has come more generally to signify any person serving a long prison term < the stranger turned out to be a convict who had escaped on the way to prison > < a riot among convicts in a state penitentiary > malefactor signifies one who has committed an evil deed or serious offense but suggests little or no relation to courts or punishment < most of our malefactors, from statesmen to thieves — T.S.Eliot > < a malefactor robbing small stores at night and setting fire to them > culprit often carries the weakened sense of one guilty of a crime < after the series of crimes, the police tried for several weeks to find the culprit > but more generally either suggests a trivial fault or offense, especially of a child < the culprits were two boys, one about 12 years old, the other about 10 — Green Peyton > or applies to a person or thing that causes some undesirable condition or situation < another group of supposed culprits who are being blamed for the present inflationary situation — T.O.Waage > < the culprit holding up world peace and understanding — W.A.Lydgate > delinquent applies to an offender against duty or the law especially in a degree not constituting crime; in its present semilegal use, in application to juvenile offenders against civil or moral law, it usually implies a habitual tendency to commit certain offenses and contrasts with criminal in implying a sociological or psychological rather than judicial attitude toward the offender < whether a customer who has missed a payment is … a habitual delinquent — C.W.Phelps > < we label as delinquents those who do not conform to the legal and moral codes of society — Federal Probation >
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