Definitions
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- noun the state of being a criminal
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Examples
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Otherwise, we are merely calling criminalism by the more respected name
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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This raises the prospect of a worrying scenario: A decapitated Naxalite movement splinters into smaller, highly localized groups that degenerate into ideologically neutral, parochial criminalism.
Outgunning India's Maoists Isn't Enough Vikas Kumar 2010
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Their business model isn't based on marketing warfare, it's based on _total _warfare -- and it's not based on cutthroat capitalism, it's based on cutthroat _criminalism_.
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He thinks that stigmata of degeneration are probably better correlated with mental defect and also with nutritional or environmental conditions than with criminalism as such.
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