hate crime
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See also: hate-crime
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]hate crime (plural hate crimes)
- (crime) A crime motivated by hate for a race, gender, religion, etc., which may result in harsh punishments, the severity of which varies by statute and the nature of the crime.
- 1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Banky Edwards (Jason Lee):
- I feel a hate crime coming on.
- 2002 Sean Pertwee as Father, Equilibrium, 24 minutes:
- The later twentieth century saw the fortuitous simultaneous rise of two synergistic political and psychological sciences. The first: the revolutionary precept of the hate crime.
Derived terms
[edit]- hate-crime (verb)
Translations
[edit]crime motivated by hate
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- hate crime on Wikipedia.Wikipedia