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The crime your conscience files long before any court does.
means An act that breaks a moral, ethical, or legal rule — a general-purpose word for the bad thing that was done.
from A straightforward compound of 'wrong' (crooked, unjust, from Old English 'wrang') plus 'doing' (the act of carrying something out). No hidden plot twist here — English just stacked two plain words together, sometime in the medieval period, to name the obvious: the doing of wrong.
- legal vs moral
- doesn't need a law to count
- etymology
- literally just wrong plus doing, no frills
- corporate favorite
- euphemism of choice for fraud in press releases
- self-report rate
- nearly zero without a subpoena