Crime and Mistake

Crime

Crime noun - Activities that are in violation of the laws of the state.

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Mistake and crime are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mistake" instead a noun "Crime".

Nearby Words: criminal, criminally

Mistake noun - A wrong judgment.

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Crime and mistake are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crime" instead a noun "Mistake".

Nearby Words: mistaken, mistakenly, mistaking

particular	particular crime	particular mistake
similar	similar crime	similar mistake
common	common crime	common mistake
original	original crime	original mistake
Other adjectives: single, simple, small, actual, real, big, great, serious, little, terrible, horrible, major, silly, past, minor, worst, greatest, previous, horrific, worse, biggest.

Is cynical, world-weary, and jaded, often due to a mysterious Dark and Troubled Past, which, if uncovered, may reveal a significant loss, or a crime or mistake committed which still haunts him, or, conversely, that he may be suffering from some unnamed crime against him.

Source: Byronic Hero
Which caused either Talleyrand or Fouché to comment that the execution was "worse than a crime, a mistake."

Source: Useful Notes / The Napoleonic Wars
It's described as they are all the same where some adult commits a small crime, makes some stupid mistake, and then Sherlock Sammy solves it and then makes the adult look like an idiot.

Source: Literature / Diary of a Wimpy Kid

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