English-Italian translations for criminal

• criminale
  Tony Blair è un criminale di guerra. Mr Tony Blair is a war criminal.
  Chi lo fa non è un criminale, né un traditore. That does not make you a criminal or a traitor.
  La nostra politica nei confronti dell' Asia è criminale, letteralmente criminale. Our policy towards Asia is a criminal policy; it is quite literally criminal.
• criminoso
• delinquente
  Un piccolo delinquente, un piccolo malvivente incontrerà sul posto grandi criminali che sapranno convertirlo alla grande criminalità. There, a petty, small-time criminal will meet big-time criminals who know how to turn him into one of them.
• delittuoso

Definition of criminal

• Against the law; forbidden by law
• Guilty of breaking the law
• Of or relating to crime or penal law
• Abhorrent or very undesirable
• A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law

Examples

• His long criminal record suggests that he is a dangerous man
• Printing such asinine opinions is criminal!

Related words

• criminality
• criminalize
• criminalization
• decriminalization
• decriminalisation
• criminalise
• decriminalize
• criminalisation
• criminally