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Definitions for victimless
vic·tim·less

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  1. victimlessadjective

    Without a victim.

    He said that prostitution, drug trafficking, and gambling were victimless crimes.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of victimless in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of victimless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of victimless in a Sentence

  1. Anthony Anderson:

    People often say that stolen valor is a victimless crime and to some degree it may be.

  2. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance:

    These are not victimless crimes, but damaging invasions of privacy.

  3. Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones:

    The underground economy is not a victimless crime, by underreporting payroll, paying employees under the table and committing workers' compensation insurance fraud, these employers cheat the system and leave their employees at risk.

  4. Margot Cleveland:

    When the Court releases opinion, which will likely not be for six months or more, the majority will likely adopt Chief Justice John Roberts' position in a 2007 case, when he wrote: ‘The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race, is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,’ missing in this debate, also, is the reality that race discrimination is not a victimless proposition, and often another minority, namely Asian-Americans, suffer the consequences.

  5. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown:

    There are some who would argue that Internet gambling is a victimless crime. I very much disagree.

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