criminally

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English

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Etymology

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From criminal +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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criminally (comparative more criminally, superlative most criminally)

  1. In a criminal manner.
    • 2019 December 13, Annie Correal, “Why Workers Fear Moving 50 Criminally Insane Patients”, in The New York Times[1]:
      The move will transfer the facility’s more than 200 prisoners, including 50 deemed criminally insane, from a fortresslike building with bars on the windows and cement walls and ceilings into a unit of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a civilian hospital close by on Wards Island.

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