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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'career criminal' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who has committed many crimes over an extended period of time. For example, "Mark had been a career criminal since his teenage years, amassing a lengthy criminal record in the process."
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career criminal
noun
A person who makes a living illegally by committing crimes.
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Bobby was a career criminal.
"He certainly was not a career criminal," Justice Griffin said.
He was proud that he was indeed a career criminal.
They say Mr. Cromitie, a career criminal, was the real instigator of the plan.
"Curtis Warren was a career criminal for whom prison was a temporary setback.
ANNALS OF LAW about the murder of Polly Klaas, 12, by career criminal Richard Allen Davis.
As a career criminal, you reach a pinnacle and that was it.
It's not the first cable drama centered on an endearing career criminal and his family.
Robert Sanders, a career criminal, escaped from a prison in the Bronx.
He was a career criminal, but not a vicious one – just constantly doing petty crimes.
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Heat (1995) -- Here the actor is a highly professional-but dangerously weary-career criminal whose isolation is slowly strangling him.
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