life of crime

idiom

: habitual breaking of the law
He turned to a life of crime as a teenager.

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What always stayed with me was the confusion Wedding’s family felt about his choices at the time — athletic promise abandoned for a life of crime. Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025 Stockton was 11 when his father, who struggled with substance abuse and wanted to get out of a life of crime, decided to change his ways and moved the family to Lakehead in Shasta County. Hema Sivanandam, The Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2024 In Lucky, Taylor-Joy stars as a young woman who left behind the life of crime she was raised in years ago, but must now embrace her darker, criminal side one final time in a desperate attempt to escape her past. Denise Petski, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024 Billy Wagner once justified his life of crime to his younger son. Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for life of crime 

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“Life of crime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life%20of%20crime. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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