horrible crime

collocation in English

meaningsofhorribleandcrime

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horrible
adjective
uk
/ˈhɒr.ə.bəl/us
/ˈhɔːr.ə.bəl/
very unpleasant ...
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crime
noun
uk
/kraɪm/us
/kraɪm/
illegal ...
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(Definition ofhorribleandcrimefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhorrible crime

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Burglary is ahorriblecrime.
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I regard blackmail as a thoroughlyhorriblecrime.
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There we have the true explanation of thishorriblecrime.
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This is the mosthorriblecrimein all history.
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It is ahorriblecrimeto wish to blow up peaceful diplomats.
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There was, understandably, immense local pressure to clear up thishorriblecrime.
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She was in the centre of thehorriblecrime.
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Here and there they found the record of a man who had committed somehorriblecrimeinvolving moral turpitude.
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They are certified, and that is as far as anything is done until they commit somehorriblecrime, and then action is taken against them.
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Is it not an awful thing to let this fellow loose when he has served only half his sentence for thathorriblecrime?
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Next, they find themselves accused of ahorriblecrimethey did not commit.
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To resort to capital punishment when there are other means by which society can signalise its repudiation of ahorriblecrimeis a confession of failure.
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Realizing they had no way of escaping, they turned to bonding their bodies to machines to make themselves immortal, ahorriblecrimeamong their race due to the side effects.
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