Don't you believe for a second that we bring in innocent people and charge them with some imaginary crimes.

People were charged overnight with imaginary crimes and convicted through a so-called court trial.

They knew that terror or malice might inspire accused people to invent imaginary crimes and conceal real ones.

Their teeth and beards were pulled out, they were burned, and finally tempted with gold, to persuade them to confess an imaginary crime.

It seems that they had been denunciated for imaginary crimes.

Found guilty of this imaginary crime, she was condemned to death by beheading.

In other words, you're reading an imaginary crime between the lines of an account that's already imaginary in itself.

On August 21 (1650) fifteen women and one man were executed for the imaginary crime of witchcraft.

Wants to be punished, wants to expiate some real or imaginary crime.

I am innocent, and yet your clever, suspicious eyes have been punishing me for an imaginary crime ever since my marriage.