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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Being against the law, forbidden by legislation.
  • figurative As abhorrent as vile crime, in a moral, logical or other non-legal context
  • Guilty of breaking the law.
  • legal In various legal systems, the most serious type of law-breaking, carrying graver sentences then one or more 'lesser' categories
  • Of or relating to crime control, notably penal law.
  • Of or relating to crime, criminality.

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Noun:

  • A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

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