The Collaborative International Dictionary
Criminalist \Crim"i*nal*ist\, n. One versed in criminal law. [R.]
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A person who specializes in the collection and examination of forensic evidence at a crime scene.
Usage examples of "criminalist".
He seemed more impressed than angered by what the criminalist had tried.
French forensic detective and criminalist, who developed a principle that was later named for him.
Lincoln Rhyme and his Storm Arrow wheelchair, two sweating ESU officers carried their burden up the stairs into the building and deposited the criminalist in the lobby.
This was just the sort of sentiment that the criminalist would appear wholly indifferent to but that would privately please him no end.
Lincoln Rhyme without a word and scurried about to deposit the bags and stacks of pictures as the criminalist gruffly directed.
The criminalist sensed an odd fibrillation in the core of his bodyan area where he could by rights feel nothing at all.
Rhyme had said dozens of times, a criminalist must ignore the apparent impossibilities of the job.
She began to ask the detective what he meant but the criminalist himself began sniffing the air.
Cai rose and shook hands though unlike most visitors there was not even a vestigial gesture of his arm toward Rhyme but merely a nod, which told the criminalist that he was very much in control of himself and far more perceptive and intelligent than his distracted demeanor suggested.
The criminalist saw what he recognized immediately as traces of fresh cedar mulch, the sort used in decorative gardens.
The criminalist moved his own finger slightly and eased the Storm Arrow up to the board.
Rhyme said as Dellraynow wearing the orangest shirt that the criminalist had ever seenwalked into his living room laboratory.
The criminalist knew that talcum powder was commonly used by some people as a deodorant, by workers who wore tight-fitting rubber gloves for protection and by those who engaged in certain sexual practices using latex clothing.
The criminalist was surprised that Webley from State could still manage to look so indignant.
This is a city where, for many a citizen, working nights is the norm, from a pit boss at the Flamingo to a counter clerk at a convenience store, from an exotic dancer in a live nude girls club to a criminalist working the graveyard shift.