Breaking
Crime
Crime noun - Activities that are in violation of the laws of the state.
Breaking and crime are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Breaking" instead a noun "Crime".
Nearby Words: criminal, criminally
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Cardboard Prison: It's relatively easy to repeatedly break someone out of prison, although the escapee will always be wanted for breaking out, and this is the one crime that no lawyer, no matter how slick, can ever get you acquitted for.
Source: Video Game / Liberal Crime Squad -
Laws that are struck down by courts remain on the books, because legislators generally don't bother repealing them, so in a sense breaking them is the perfect crime.
Source: The Perfect Crime - A variant: In the Leopold story The Four O'Clock Felon, after one crime goes wrong, the villain switches from armed robbery to breaking & entering.
Source: Revealing Injury
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