Criminal-like

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Like, resembling, or befitting a criminal.

    "Regardless of the ultimate judgment and any hair splitting, the CIA seemed to many Americans to have regressed to and even surpassed its criminal-like behavior during the pre-Church Committee hearings era."

Synonyms

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criminal

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"Regardless of the ultimate judgment and any hair splitting, the CIA seemed to many Americans to have regressed to and even surpassed its criminal-like behavior during the pre-Church Committee hearings era."

Etymology

From criminal + -like.

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