uncrime
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[edit]uncrime (countable and uncountable, plural uncrimes)
- (rare, uncountable) Absence of crime; crimelessness.
- 2007, Greg Trine, Terror in Tights:
- “Hey, you're my partner in uncrime. You'd do the same for me.”
- 2022, John O'Loughlin, About-Face, page 153:
- Not only Supercrime and Crime, but Pseudo-Uncrime and Pseudo-Subcrime on the one hand, in contrast not only to Subevil and Unevil, but to Pseudo-Evil and Pseudo-Superevil on the other hand, […]
- (rare, countable) That which is not a crime; a noncriminal act.
- 2008, Simon Cheshire, The Fangs of the Dragon:
- The problem was, how could Harry Lovecraft be linked with these 'un-crimes'?
- 2016, Alex Berenson, The Wolves, page 239:
- An unperson serving unpunishment for an uncrime.