How to Use victimless in a Sentence

victimless

adjective

• The idea that selling drugs is a victimless crime is a fiction.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 30 Oct. 2019
• That may be true, but hate speech is not a victimless offense.
  — Caroline Knorr, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• That’s a victimless crime if you are opposed to gambling.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• It’s time to stop locking people up for victimless crimes.
  — Katherine Timpf, National Review, 11 Sep. 2019
• The state’s attorney’s office said in its announcement the sentences showed the judge did not view the theft as a victimless crime or a single act.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, baltimoresun.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• Chitwood said retail theft is not a victimless crime and has an adverse impact on stores.
  — David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• Duffy said the case was essentially a victimless crime.
  — David Samuels, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2013
• Police usually hang out on the BART side, chilling, ready for any felonies, while letting most of the victimless crimes happen.
  — Peter Hartlaub, SFChronicle.com, 12 June 2019
• This was no victimless crime, the commissioners said, and the damage was far more than just financial.
  — Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 25 May 2017
• The media is obsessed with Manafort and Cohen -- victimless, gotcha crimes.
  — Fox News, 23 Aug. 2018
• Police said that despite what some criminals may think, identity theft and fraud is not a victimless crime.
  — Brittney Johnson, ajc, 22 Dec. 2017
• The problem with that argument, of course, is that her crimes weren't actually victimless.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 19 June 2018
• Bad punditry and predictions are not victimless crimes, no matter how secure columnists and cable TV hosts are in their jobs.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2020
• Such things often happen by chance, making them easy to conceal and allowing players to rationalise their actions as victimless crimes, rather than frauds against fans, punters and their unsuspecting team-mates.
  — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2017
• Many of the ideological supporters of the Silk Road have described its sprawling online black market for drugs as an experiment in victimless crime and a nonviolent alternative to the bloody turf wars of the streets.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2015
• By the mid-1960s, the bail bond industry was an entrenched component of a system just beginning to be fueled and fed by the systemic targeting of African Americans for what would now be considered relatively minor, victimless drug offenses.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 16 Jan. 2020
• Sheriff Mark Curran said that prostitution is not a victimless crime that is often associated with human trafficking.
  — Erin Gallagher, Lake County News-Sun, 24 May 2017
• The court can handle nonviolent, low-level victimless offenses.
  — J. Edward Moreno, azcentral, 24 June 2019
• The policy, which Mears announced as acting prosecutor, was met with support from people who agreed with his reasoning that marijuana is a victimless crime that has a disproportionate impact on the African-American community.
  — Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star, 28 Jan. 2020
• Corruption in developing nations is not a victimless crime, and giving fungible money to shady governments makes American taxpayers into dupes.
  — Jay Newman, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• Instead, the very act of exposure, combined with stories that unwittingly framed extremism as a victimless novelty, legitimized and empowered an otherwise fringe perspective.
  — Miranda Katz, WIRED, 25 May 2018
• But unlike his opponents, who wish to inflict pain, his sins are essentially victimless—especially since this tournament has introduced Video Assistant Referees, with his antics constantly being reviewed by replay.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 5 July 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024