Meanings
comparative more criminally · superlative most criminally
- In a criminal manner.
The move will transfer the facility’s more than 200 prisoners, including 50 deemed criminally insane, from a fortresslike building with bars on the windows and cement walls and ceilings into a unit of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a civilian hospital close by on Wards Island.
2019 December 13, Annie Correal, “Why Workers Fear Moving 50 Criminally Insane Patients”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2020Synonyms: delinquently, illegally, forbiddenly, illegally, illegitimately, illicitly, unlawfully
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbIn a criminal manner.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin a shameful manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Catalan criminalment
- criminalmentin a criminal manner
Finnish rikollisesti
- rikollisestiin a criminal manner
Portuguese criminalmente
- criminalmentein a criminal manner
Romanian criminal
- criminalin a criminal manner
Spanish criminalmente
- criminalmentein a criminal manner
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criminally. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/criminally
“criminally.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/criminally. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “criminally,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/criminally.
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