Meaning of hate crime | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I feel a hate crime coming on.”

“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.”

CEFR level