How to Use criminality in a Sentence

criminality

noun
  • There’s no question of criminality in what Schiff said.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Ocasek's cause of death wasn’t immediately clear, but police said no criminality was suspected.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2019
  • However, generally, criminality can definitively only be established in and by a court of law.
    Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • While pursuing a routine-seeming case, Frank gets entangled in a web of gangland criminality that Lionel then has to unravel.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2019
  • 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 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 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
  • If the judge rules the case doesn’t satisfy the double criminality requirement, Meng could go free.
    Dan Bilefsky, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Researchers have found that people tend to age out of criminality and that lifers who have been released after many years in prison have a low risk of recidivism.
    Patricia Leigh Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Later, Sheridan denied that he had been needed to put down rampant criminality, but, again, the city’s elites no doubt slept better with the Civil War hero in charge.
    Richard Babcock, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The district is a mini-Atlantic City, barely half a mile long with every form of criminality on display.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Nixon's low road spawned a sprawling and unpredictable culture of criminality, but the president wasn't looped in on the Watergate break-in.
    CBS News, 12 June 2022
  • But the government has struggled to explain why the policy exempts neighborhoods where ethnic Danes make up the majority but confront similar problems of education, employment, income and criminality.
    Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 1 July 2024

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