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English *adjective*: criminal
1.	criminal bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
		Samples	A criminal waste of talent. A deplorable act of violence. Adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife.
		Synonyms	condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious
		Similar	wrong
		Antonyms	right

2.	criminal guilty of crime or serious offense
		Samples	Criminal in the sight of God and man.
		Similar	guilty
		Antonyms	clean-handed, guiltless, innocent

3.	criminal involving or being or having the nature of a crime
		Samples	A criminal offense. Criminal abuse. Felonious intent.
		Synonyms	felonious
		Similar	illegal
		Antonyms	legal

English *noun*: criminal
1.	criminal (person) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
		Synonyms	crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw
		Broader (hypernym)	principal
		Narrower (hyponym)	abductor, accessary, accessory, arsonist, blackmailer, bootlegger, briber, coconspirator, conspirator, contrabandist, desperado, desperate criminal, drug dealer, drug peddler, drug trafficker, extortioner, extortionist, firebug, fugitive, fugitive from justice, gangster, gangster's moll, gaolbird, goon, gun moll, habitual criminal, highbinder, highjacker, hijacker, hood, hoodlum, incendiary, jail bird, jailbird, kidnaper, kidnapper, law offender, lawbreaker, liquidator, machinator, mafioso, manslayer, mobster, moll, moon curser, moon-curser, moonshiner, murderer, parolee, peddler, plotter, probationer, punk, pusher, racketeer, raper, rapist, recidivist, repeater, runner, scofflaw, smuggler, snatcher, stealer, strong-armer, suborner, thief, thug, tough, toughie, traitor, treasonist, violator
		Instance hyponym	Billie the Kid, Bonney, James, Jesse James, MacGregor, Rob Roy, Robert MacGregor, William H. Bonney

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