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| enormity |
a terrible crime or offense; outrage. [1/3 definitions] |
| entrap |
to entice or trick into committing a crime so as to make an arrest. [1/4 definitions] |
| Espionage Act |
a U.S. law passed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1917, shortly after the U.S. entered World War I. The Espionage Act made it a crime to convey information with the intent to interfere with the operation of the U.S. military or its recruitment of troops, to disclose information relating to national defense, or to promote the success of the country's enemies. |
| exile |
to banish by decree, as for punishment of a crime. [1/6 definitions] |
| expiate |
to atone or make amends for (a sin, crime, offense, or the like). |
| expiation |
the act or the means of making amends, as for a sin or crime. |
| felon1 |
a person who has committed a serious crime, such as murder, rape, or burglary; one who has committed a felony. |
| film noir |
a kind of film, made esp. during the 1940s and 1950s, that depicted a negative, cynical view of life, often focusing on crime and vice in cities. |
| find out |
to discover or confirm (a misdeed, secret, character flaw, crime, or the like). [1/2 definitions] |
| fine2 |
a sum of money charged as a penalty for a crime or offense. [2 definitions] |
| flagrante delicto |
(Latin) while the crime is blazing; while the crime is going on; red-handed. [1/2 definitions] |
| forfeit |
lost or surrendered as a penalty for some crime, offense, or breach of rules. [1/6 definitions] |
| frame-up |
(informal) a fraudulent scheme or arrangement, esp. in which an innocent person is implicated in a crime. |
| gangster |
someone who belongs to a criminal gang, esp. one who participates in organized crime; mobster. |
| give away |
to expose a secret or crime of (someone); betray. [1/4 definitions] |
| guilt |
the fact of having committed a crime, misdeed, or other offense. [1/2 definitions] |
| guilty |
responsible for the commission of a crime, bad act, or other offense; culpable. [1/2 definitions] |
| high treason |
violation of allegiance against one's government, or the crime of giving aid and comfort to the enemies of one's own government. |
| identity theft |
the crime of taking on the identity of another by discovering and appropriating identifying information such as social security and credit card numbers. |
| indict |
to bring a formal accusation of a crime against, as by the findings of a grand jury. [1/2 definitions] |
| indictment |
a formal written accusation presented by a grand jury to a court for prosecution of a serious crime. [1/3 definitions] |
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