Crime and Outrage

Crime

Crime noun - A regrettable or blameworthy act.
Usage example: it's a crime to waste food, so give the rest of the pizza to me

Outrage is a synonym for crime in right topic. In some cases you can use "Outrage" instead a noun "Crime", when it comes to topics like offence, offense against the law, immoral act.

Nearby Words: criminal, criminally

Outrage

Outrage noun - An act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings.

Crime is a synonym for outrage in atrocity topic. You can use "Crime" instead a noun "Outrage", if it concerns topics such as right.

How words are described

similar similar crime similar outrage
normal normal crime normal outrage
specific specific crime specific outrage
original original crime original outrage
Other adjectives: initial, actual, real, great, serious, little, supposed, major, minor, less, latest, international, local, biggest.

Both words in one sentence

  • Anti-Police Song The Pogues, Birmingham Six is about the wrongful detention and conviction of six men of the right nationality who were within fifty miles of an IRA bombing outrage in Birmingham, England, who were beaten and tortured into confessing to a crime they did not commit, by the West Midlands Constabulary.
  • Also unrevealed, though tantalizingly hinted, is the the corpse Curwen disinters whose identity would cause patriotic shock and outrage if the crime was discovered, and his initials are B.F.
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