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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Free from crime; innocent.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Without crime.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Free from crime; innocent.

Examples

  • “The intention behind not allowing the registration of cases is to keep the crime figures low thereby projecting a crimeless state.”

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  • “The cops in the future can't handle the job because "San Angeles" in the 21st century is a peaceful, crimeless, utterly sterile place -- a fascist Eden of unending banality where cocktail pianists sing old commercial jingles, fines are given for profanity, where sex and cholesterol are illegal and all restaurants are called Taco Bell.”

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  • “Bahaha, yeah, outing an intelligence officer during a time of war – what a ‘crimeless incident’.”

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  • “They were striving toward umma, a perfect, classless, crimeless Muslim community infused with the "spirit of God.”

    Among the Hostage-Takers

  • “You reserve the possibility that maybe he tripped, or was otherwise somehow a “crimeless victim”?”

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  • “The front door, unlocked on the crimeless island, opened.”

    The Game Of Empire

  • “(Laughter) Well, why should a man not get younger when he administers justice among so crimeless. and so virtuous a population as Toronto?”

    The British League of Nations

  • “So crimeless is the country, however, that in a population of over thirty millions less than twenty such nominations are necessary; I must, however, admit that these score are aided by several thousand minor judges who are appointed in a different manner.”

    On Something

  • “As nearly as can be ascertained they are free from every gross vice and crime and Mr.C. F. Lummis, who knows them well, believes them to be a crimeless people.”

    Arizona Sketches

  • “There are a number of instances which indicate that when a man had once tasted the regal joys of man-hunting he could not be content with the dull monotony of a crimeless life after ward.”

    Following the Equator, Part 5

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