victimless

English

Etymology

From victim +‎ -less.

Adjective

victimless (not comparable)

1. Without a victim.

   He said that prostitution, drug trafficking, and gambling were victimless crimes.

   • 1983, Michael Denneny, Charles Ortleb, Thomas Steele, The Christopher Street reader, page 297:

     They have got fairly liberal laws on victimless crimes, but the Los Angeles police are still busy entrapping homosexualists because the police chief in Los Angeles is very antifag.

Derived terms

• victimless crime
• victimlessness

Translations

without a victim

• Dutch: slachtofferloos (nl)