Crime and Profanity

Crime

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

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

Nearby Words: criminal, criminally

Profanity noun - A disrespectful or indecent word or expression.

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Crime and profanity are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crime" instead a noun "Profanity".

Nearby Words: profane, profanation, profanely

high	high crime	high profanity
single	single crime	single profanity
actual	actual crime	actual profanity
rampant	rampant crime	rampant profanity
Other adjectives: severe, serious, little, terrible, horrible, less, international, local.

First, the original '77 punk (The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash et al.) were seen as promoting crime, drug use, anarchy, profanity, and all other things that scare the old people.

Source: The New Rock & Roll
Only one another crime movie, The Departed, (a contemporary gangster filmnote The Godfather doubled as a period filmwith the highest degree of profanity and violence than any other winner) won Best Picture.

Source: Useful Notes / Academy Award
The Wire, which usually uses profanity regularly but not to ridiculous degrees, features a particularly brilliant example: an entire three minutes and thirty seconds of two detectives, Bunk and McNulty examining a crime scene, the only words exchanged being variations on the f-word.

Source: Cluster F Bomb / Live-Action TV

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