How to Use criminality in a Sentence

criminality

noun
  • His criminality has a purpose: to avenge the murder of his father and the crime he was framed for.
    Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Follow the money, power and criminality and bring it to the doorstep of the gazillionaires who have the most to lose.
    Steve Andriole, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
  • There are degrees of criminality, and, of course, the murder of the child stands as the ultimate.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The city made clear of its stance on the zoot suit, which, to it, represented both the gall of Mexican youth and the threat of criminality.
    Mariana Gonzalez, Teen Vogue, 21 Sep. 2018
  • The screenplay is by Zach Helm and Sam Levinson, who do their best to leave the criminality in suspense.
    The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2022
  • By the time states recognized the extent of the criminality, the spigot of cash had been gushing for months.
    NBC News, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Police said there were no signs of criminality at the site but declined to disclose a cause of death.
    Fox News, 11 July 2020
  • There's no ex- excuse for the criminality and for the looting.
    CBS News, 7 June 2020
  • There is a sense that in criminality, that there is not a punishment. ...
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2024
  • There is criminality and using weapons is part of that.
    NBC News, 28 Mar. 2021
  • There is a high risk of alcohol and drug abuse, and criminality.
    Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Poverty wasn’t the root of the criminality itself, and crimes committed by the poor were not even the major cause of harm to society.
    Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2020
  • My study found that the lyrics present this criminality in positive ways.
    Oludayo Tade, Quartz, 12 May 2021
  • There is no criminality happening on the part of our staff.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The purpose of the term is to spawn nightmares of violence and criminality, controllable only from the top down.
    Christine Emba, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2018
  • There’s no question of criminality in what Schiff said.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • More than at any time since the Taliban was ousted in 2001, rampant criminality has returned to the heart of Afghanistan’s politics.
    Javid Ahmad, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2018
  • If the judge rules the case doesn’t satisfy the double criminality requirement, Meng could go free.
    Dan Bilefsky, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • The confirmation that criminality was at the heart of crypto trading was, of course, a big setback for the industry at large.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Yet, both of them have been putting up with the escalating criminality of these protesters for months.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 June 2024
  • The film reminded me that white men are owed nothing, and there‘s a nation’s worth of them who may resist the idea with petty criminality or something much, much worse.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 May 2018
  • As alleged, the Maduro regime is awash in corruption and criminality.
    Clare Hymes, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2020
  • There’s a lot of heavy material in there — PTSD, oxycontin, and criminality — but there is also a wry thread of humor through the whole thing as well.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Either way, even Fox is beginning to admit the nature of Trump’s criminality—and that most of America sees him in that way too.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 9 May 2023
  • Throughout the series run, Ada has been a continuous victim, both of the Shelby’s own criminality and the convenience of the plot.
    Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 9 June 2022
  • Indeed, from malaise to criminality to blight, so much of the modern urban experience seems to mirror what cities went through in that fraught decade.
    Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Cazes' criminality, by contrast, seemed to be channeled entirely through the opaque aperture of the dark web, safely behind the veil of Bitcoin's blockchain.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Is lack of criminality the only standard to be applied?
    CBS News, 24 July 2019
  • So the media plays a huge role in this kind of idolizing of white victimhood and brandishing of Black criminality.
    Bernadette Bynoe, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The presidential election this year unified the opposition, mobilized citizens, and demonstrated to the world the cynicism, failure, and criminality of the Maduro government.
    Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2024

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