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criminal

 
 
/ˈkrɪmɪnəl/ adjective

Translation

ABOUT CRIME [always before noun] relating to crime
suça ait, suç unsuru taşıyan
criminal activity He has a criminal record (= the police have an official record of his crimes).21872383
BAD informal very bad or morally wrong
ahlaken yanlış olan, çok kötü kabahat içeren
It's criminal that people are having to wait so long for hospital treatment.970
criminally adverb
suça dair
(Definition of criminal adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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