How to Use criminality in a Sentence

criminality

noun

• 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
• Drug dealing has always been a major character in the persistent myth of the scourge of black criminality in rap music.
  — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
• 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
• Imagine a president willing and able to suborn criminality on his behalf.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 1 June 2018
• Medical specialists at the time attributed the outbreaks to race and criminality.
  — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 30 May 2018
• So there’s the cages combined with the animal language, and the language of illegality and criminality.
  — Rebecca Traister, The Cut, 27 June 2018
• Dave Gutierrez said officers determined those incidents did not rise to the level of criminality.
  — Nashelly Chavez, sacbee, 7 June 2018
• Police detectives eagerly adopted these methods, which linked criminality to specific physical traits like the shape of a person’s head or the size of his nose.
  — Sarah Weinman, The New Republic, 14 June 2018
• Much of his alleged criminality occurred prior to his association with the Trump campaign.
  — Peter Grier, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2018
• God’s mercy and justice on those who have blasphemed God’s holy name, those who slander and bear false witness and those who commit murder or justify murder as a means for fighting criminality.
  — Jim Gomez, The Seattle Times, 9 July 2018
• 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 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
• 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
• Deepening the criminality involved, a CNN investigation last year found that many of the scammers are themselves victims of human trafficking.
  — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 4 Oct. 2024
• But curbing criminality on a national level represents a much greater challenge: Organized crime is more deeply embedded elsewhere in the country than in the capital.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024