Crime
Crime noun - Activities that are in violation of the laws of the state.
Tyranny and crime are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tyranny" instead a noun "Crime".
Nearby Words: criminal, criminally
Tyranny
Tyranny noun - A system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power.
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The town may live or die in the ensuing violence, but either way the tyranny of Drake's crime family has ended.
Source: Film / Hobo with a Shotgun -
While the town begins to prosper, it also becomes a Wretched Hive of lawlessness and crime, but pretty much everyone in-story considers this to be leagues better than Raedric's psychotic tyranny.
Source: Video Game / Pillars of Eternity - Sanjay is deemed a criminal, with the theocratic regime going so far as to accuse him of being the antichrist, solely for the "crime" of seeking to protect people's individual rights from religiously motivated collectivist tyranny.
Source: Literature / Christian Nation
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