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
  • By the end of the film, Gekko went to prison for widespread criminality.
    — Albert Kim, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • There is a high risk of alcohol and drug abuse, and criminality.
    — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2022
  • My study found that the lyrics present this criminality in positive ways.
    — Oludayo Tade, Quartz, 12 May 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
  • His criminality had long been known; it had simply been overlooked.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 3 May 2018
  • Police said no criminality was involved in the man’s fall onto the tracks.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • In the list of things money attracts, criminality is one.
    — Phil Hay, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But still, there is a high level of criminality and there is a high level of corruption.
    — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
  • There's no ex- excuse for the criminality and for the looting.
    — CBS News, 7 June 2020
  • At the time of her death, police said criminality was not suspected.
    — Kierra Frazier, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2025
  • At this time there is nothing to suggest any criminality with respect to their venture.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • At this point, no arrests have been made and no criminality is suspected by police.
    — Ali Bauman, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • By the time states recognized the extent of the criminality, the spigot of cash had been gushing for months.
    — NBC News, 15 Aug. 2021
  • His criminality, however, plays out on a much smaller scale than we're used to seeing in comic book flicks.
    — Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 14 July 2017
  • 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
  • But the public image was always one of criminality rather than survival.
    — Pablo Larios, Artforum, 6 May 2026
  • And so what if the Freddie Gray judge said there was no evidence of criminality?
    — baltimoresun.com, 9 May 2017
  • If there is criminality, those people responsible will pay a steep price!
    — Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025
  • To many in the country, the term galamsey has thus now become synonymous with criminality.
    — Marisa Schwartz Taylor, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The theme of criminality is having a moment in the arts and entertainment world.
    — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2017
  • As alleged, the Maduro regime is awash in corruption and criminality.
    — Clare Hymes, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2020
  • What Redick asked of Doncic in that series, as well as the rest of his team’s starters, was coaching criminality.
    — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 May 2025
  • The state has failed to produce a single piece of evidence linking me to any act of violence or criminality.
    — Mahrang Baloch, Time, 10 June 2025
  • 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
  • The movie exploited the loosening codes of the time, to make for a more frank depiction of urban criminality.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 31 May 2025
  • But the question, as Stephanopoulos kept insisting, was not about whether this rose to the level of criminality.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • 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

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