criminal
/ˈkrɪmɪnəl/ adjectiveDefinition
ABOUT CRIME [always before noun] › relating to crime: criminal activity He has a criminal record (= the police have an official record of his crimes).
BAD informal › very bad or morally wrong: It's criminal that people are having to wait so long for hospital treatment.
criminally adverb (Definition of criminal adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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