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subcriminal

subcriminal adjective: less than criminal; not serious enough to count as a crime or a criminal.

Adjective

subcriminal (not comparable)

  1. Less than criminal; not serious enough to count as a crime or a criminal.

Origin of subcriminal

From sub- + criminal.

Questions about subcriminal

What does subcriminal mean?
Subcriminal means less than criminal; not serious enough to count as a crime or a criminal.
What part of speech is subcriminal?
Subcriminal is an adjective.

Words near subcriminal in the dictionary

  1. subcrenate
  2. subcrenulate
  3. subcrenulated
  4. subcrepitant
  5. subcrescentic
  6. subcriminal
  7. subcriteria
  8. subcriterion
  9. subcritical
  10. subcritical mass
  11. subcritical masses

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