The Collaborative International Dictionary
Criminally \Crim"i*nal*ly\ (kr?m"?-nal-l?), adv. In violation of law; wickedly.
Wiktionary
adv. In a criminal manner.
WordNet
adv. in a shameful manner; "the garden was criminally neglected" [syn: reprehensively]
in violation of the law; in a criminal manner; "the alterations in the document were ruled to be criminally fraudulent"
Usage examples of "criminally".
Mari Ado, ex of the Little Blue Bugs, was criminally competent in a number of insurgency roles that had nothing to do with wavecraft, and for that matter no less well endowed physically than a number of the other female bodies in the room, Virginia Vidaura included.
He thought it was nearly criminally cruel for Andy to have taken her out to the unhallowed ground to tell her that a demon was after her.
Under the influence of champagne, Svidrigailov reminisces about his criminally libertine past, and the morally fastidious Raskolnikov cannot help being shocked.
Letting some preventable external threat destroy this colony when a couple of Bolos old enough to make them second-tier assets at the front could have prevented it would have been criminally negligent.
Some of the letters had been smudged, others missing, but sufficient had remained to inform Blade that he was outside a division of the Minnesota State Hospital, a subbranch called The Minnesota Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Like him, she rushed normal procedures, taking a criminally heavy program right through the academic year and into the summer as well.
There will be no distinctions of class in such a train, because in a civilised world there would be no offence between one kind of man and another, and for the good of the whole world such travelling will be as cheap as it can be, and well within the reach of any but the almost criminally poor.
All the cops in the Vegas hotel lobby are wearing the same plaid Bermuda shorts, and they're uglier than any group of mutants you'd see at a bad insane asylum -- you know, for the criminally insane.
She made professional inquires for me from some old friends of hers who'd trained with her at Menninger's and eventually found out Al was committed to Camarillo State Hospital for the criminally insane after the shrinks interviewed him.
Frederick Chilton, fifty-eight, administrator of the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, has a long, wide desk upon which there are no hard or sharp objects.
If it can be shown that you maliciously caused a financial loss, which would include causing hours of work to recover from a spamming, you are criminally liable.
He’d been almost criminally negligent in not identifying the hostiles as soon as they emerged.
You'll notice this paragraph is not preceded by a parenthesis, nor does one of those damnable things come at the end, for now we have returned to the primary narrative, where I will tell you about Buddy Vishnu, investment adviser to the criminally insane.
The sound of it hinted at some soft, padded room in a high-end mental asylum for the criminally insane that was positively lurking in the kids near-future.
It was these souls I thought of, Canadian as I am by birth, but half-Gypsy by blood, as I listened to Liszt's three final Hungarian Rhapsodies, all in minor keys, and all speaking the melancholy defiance of a medieval people, living in a modern world, in which their inveterate criminally expresses itself in robbing clothes-lines and face-to-face cheating of gadje who want their fortunes told by a people who seem to have the old wisdom they themselves have lost in their complex world of gadjo ingenuity, where the cheats and rogueries are institutionalized.