law-breaking
criminal offense
criminal offence
crime
evildoing
villainy
penal
punishable
penalization
malefaction
punishment
penalty
penalisation
malum prohibitum
statutable
commission
telishment
red-handed
nulla pœna sine lege
penality
nonpunishable
criminal law
perpetration
criminalization
committal
malum in se
re-sentencing
commutation
retributivism
criminality
The Hague
bring to book
penally
enormity
precrime
grab
offending
punishably
assess
aftercall
mitigating circumstance
accusably
draconianism
punishableness
mayhem
uncrime
condemnation
culpable negligence
criminal negligence
penalize
ill-doing
penalised
kidnapping
regulatory offence
snatch
statutory offense
statutory offence
regulatory offense
malice murder
transgress
capital crime
in malam partem
alterable
finable
iniquity
catch a case
inchoate
loo
suborn
trial
victimless crime
moral turpitude
feloniousness
compulsion
penal code
penitentiary
severity
stand-your-ground law
flag
senseless
decriminalization
battery
have someone's blood
foul play
commit
unlawfulness
criminal
punishability
get
receive
actus reus
disaster

English words for '(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act'

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