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criminal-like

criminal-like adjective: like, resembling, or befitting a criminal.

Adjective

criminal-like (comparative more criminal-like, superlative most criminal-like)

  1. Like, resembling, or befitting a criminal.
    • Regardless of the ultimate judgment and any hair splitting, the CIA seemed to many Americans to have regressed to and even surpassed its criminal-like behavior during the pre-Church Committee hearings era.2014, Richard H. Immerman, The Hidden Hand: A Brief History of the CIA
    Synonyms:
    criminal

Synonyms of criminal-like

Forms of criminal-like

comparativemore criminal-like
superlativemost criminal-like

Origin of criminal-like

From criminal + -like.

Questions about criminal-like

What does criminal-like mean?
Criminal-like means like, resembling, or befitting a criminal.
What part of speech is criminal-like?
Criminal-like is an adjective.

Words near criminal-like in the dictionary

  1. criminal spin
  2. criminal tool
  3. criminal tools
  4. criminal tribe
  5. criminal tribes
  6. criminal-like
  7. criminaldom
  8. criminalese
  9. criminaless
  10. criminalesses
  11. criminalisation

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