hate crime

See also: hate-crime

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hate crime (countable and uncountable, plural hate crimes)

  2. (crime) A crime motivated by hate for a race, gender, religion, etc., which may result in harsh punishments, the severity of which varies by statute and the nature of the crime.
    • 1997, Kevin Smith, Chasing Amy, spoken by Banky Edwards (Jason Lee):
      I feel a hate crime coming on.
    • 2002 Sean Pertwee as Father, Equilibrium, 24 minutes:
      The later twentieth century saw the fortuitous simultaneous rise of two synergistic political and psychological sciences. The first: the revolutionary precept of the hate crime.

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