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criminaloid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
crim-i-naloid
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who carries out business in an immoral or exploitative way, but does not necessarily break the law, and is protected from consequences by a veneer of social respectability.

Etymology

From criminal + -oid, coined by E. A. Ross in Sin and Society (1907).

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

criminaloids (plural)

Questions

What does criminaloid mean?
A person who carries out business in an immoral or exploitative way, but does not necessarily break the law, and is protected from consequences by a veneer of social respectability.
Where does criminaloid come from?
From criminal + -oid, coined by E. A. Ross in Sin and Society (1907).

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