LekhoriLekhoriAgainst the law; forbidden by law.
Foppish and fantastic ornaments are only indications of vice, not criminal in themselves.
Of or relating to crime or penal law.
His long criminal record suggests that he is a dangerous man.
A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.
‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’
From Middle English cryminal, borrowed from Anglo-Norman criminal, from Late Latin criminalis, from Latin crimen (“crime”).
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