Criminal
Criminal adjective - Contrary to or forbidden by law.
Destructive and criminal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Destructive" instead an adjective "Criminal".
Destructive
Destructive adjective - Causing or tending to cause destruction.
Criminal and destructive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Criminal" instead an adjective "Destructive".
Both words in one sentence
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The title character, a diligent and high-minded psychiatrist, managed to cure Riddler Expy "The Quizzler" of his self-destructive obsessive-compulsive tendencies — turning him into a really dangerous criminal mastermind.
Source: Criminal Mind Games - As he finally takes down psychotic criminal Simon Phoenix in such a destructive manner that led to the deaths of hundreds of hostages (though it's later revealed that Phoenix had killed them earlier), he gets a life sentence in prison alongside Phoenix.
Source: Decon-Recon Switch - Two people who have committed war crimes, a self-destructive Former Child Star who lost his mother to suicide, a woman whose uncaring parents sent her on camping trips with her sexually abusive uncle, and an Only Sane Man with a family who hates him because he exposed his father as a criminal.
Source: Dysfunction Junction
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