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(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act
a long record of crimes
How To Use criminal offence In A Sentence
- He suggested that tangling fishing gear should be made a criminal offence.
- It will be a criminal offence to hold yourself out as a Chinese medical practitioner or a herbal dispenser of Chinese medicines, and a range of other appellations, if in fact one has not been registered by the board.
- Their trade union says his actions constitute a criminal offence by inciting hatred, which carries a sentence of three to five years in prison. The Sun
- Police will be called in if there is suspicion a criminal offence has occurred. The Sun
- No international body is entrusted with the task of prosecuting and punishing those criminal offences.
- David was not convicted of a criminal offence after the age of majority.
- The possession of stolen property is a criminal offence.
- He says that the words complained of were meant and calculated to disparage the Claimant in his profession and business and also that they imputed to him the criminal offences of harassment stalking and theft.
- Except in the case of conviction for a criminal offence, there is no mechanism for removing them except at the ballot box. Times, Sunday Times
- He suggested that tangling fishing gear should be made a criminal offence.
