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Example sentences for: semi-criminal

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It has always, since long before my time, been the custome for only the first part of a compound to be used, such as my old china (=china plate=mate) or up the apples (= apples and pears = stairs ), and it is generally believed that this practice first began among the semi-criminal classes to render their speech less easily comprehensible to outsiders.