English Explanatory Dictionary

criminaloid

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

criminaloid criminaloids

Etymology

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

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