criminal conversations

noun

plural of criminal conversation
as in love affairs

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  1. love affairs
  2. romances
Noun
  • The result is a strange, bewitching experiment in autobiography, in which there are no friendships or love affairs, just exquisite digressions on life-changing texts.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Léo’s tenderly nostalgic reminiscences of past love affairs are slapped down by Emma, who brusquely dismisses his pleasant recollections as mere male projection.
    — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
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  • For the latest installment of Vogue’s Required Reading series, Hoover rounds up some of the books that most inspired her own work—Verity in particular—from romances to thrillers and beyond.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026
  • These are impossible romances, complicated and spiritually incestuous, which perhaps explains why Alex so often seems unbothered by them.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of romances
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“Criminal conversations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/criminal%20conversations. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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