n. 1
A specific act committed in violation of the law, especially criminal law.
the commission of a crime
n. 2
Any great sin or wickedness; iniquity.
Those methods of saving money should be a crime.
n. 3
Criminal acts collectively.
an effort by the police to tackle crime in the city

Related words

Word family: crimeful crimeless crimethink criminal criminally crimo
Phrases: crime car crime lord sex crime organized crime partner-in-crime crime science crime scientist impediment of crime
Is a kind of: iniquity misdeed

Forms

or Crime?

Crime is often used for a flagrant violation of right, but in the technical sense denotes specific violation of human law.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

sin Judaism doesn't believe in heritable original sin.
atrocity It is hard to believe that humans are capable of such atrocity.
transgression Plagiarism is a serious transgression of academic ethics.
malfeasance The accountant who stole from the firm went to jail for corporate malfeasance.

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: sin¹
4 letters: vice¹, tort¹
5 letters: wrong¹, error², guilt¹
6 letters: felony³, delict
7 letters: offense², offence, outrage², misdeed²
8 letters: trespass², atrocity⁴, iniquity⁴, enormity⁴, misdoing
10 letters: peccadillo
11 letters: misdemeanor⁴, criminality⁵, delinquency⁴, malfeasance³, dereliction⁴, malefaction
12 letters: misdemeanour, perpetration, unlawfulness
13 letters: transgression³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (error² = 2 syllables).