How to Use criminality in a Sentence

criminality

noun

• The sheer scale of the criminality meant the case was split into two trials.
  — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
• 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 a sense that in criminality, that there is not a punishment. ...
  — Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Oct. 2024
• 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
• And so what if the Freddie Gray judge said there was no evidence of criminality?
  — baltimoresun.com, 9 May 2017
• My study found that the lyrics present this criminality in positive ways.
  — Oludayo Tade, Quartz, 12 May 2021
• The drug war is billed as a war against criminality, which many, both poor and privileged, see as the reason the streets were so dangerous and the country’s progress kept stalling.
  — Jessica Mendoza, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2018
• There is no criminality happening on the part of our staff.
  — Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• But still, there is a high level of criminality and there is a high level of corruption.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• The theme of criminality is having a moment in the arts and entertainment world.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• To many in the country, the term galamsey has thus now become synonymous with criminality.
  — Marisa Schwartz Taylor, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• As alleged, the Maduro regime is awash in corruption and criminality.
  — Clare Hymes, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2020
• And why, after the flurry of arrests in 2023, has Chinese law enforcement action slowed despite a resurgence in criminality?
  — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 Jan. 2025
• The catalyzing incident here is the disappearance of a teen girl, which of course turns into a much larger investigation of more widespread and depraved criminality, as these cases always do on TV.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Mar 2025