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Synonyms for felonious


Grammar : Adj
Spell : fuh-loh-nee-uh s
Phonetic Transcription : fəˈloʊ ni əs



Définition of felonious

Origin :
  • mid-15c. (implied in feloniously), from felony + -ous. Replaced felonous (mid-14c.) by c.1600. Felonly (c.1300) was another variation.
  • adj criminal
Example sentences :
  • The fact that the shooting is felonious does not make it any more likely to kill people.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • The suit was by way of appeal; the cause of action, a felonious trespass.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • He might be with this felonious lot, but he wouldn't be of them.
  • Extract from : « Ravensdene Court » by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher
  • I wasn't tryin' to break into the army with felonious intent.
  • Extract from : « The House of Torchy » by Sewell Ford
  • Mr. Hutton started, as though he had been taken in some felonious act.
  • Extract from : « Mortal Coils » by Aldous Huxley
  • And you dare to present that thing at me, as though I were here for a felonious purpose!
  • Extract from : « The Crime Doctor » by Ernest William Hornung
  • To read secretly the letter of another is morally as felonious.
  • Extract from : « The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners » by Eliza Leslie
  • Now, we say, that this felonious intent as charged against these defendants, must be proved.
  • Extract from : « Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York » by A. F. Warburton
  • The taking must be felonious—that is, taking with a wrongful intent to appropriate the goods of another.
  • Extract from : « Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York » by A. F. Warburton
  • Felonious clerks were thenceforward to suffer like secular criminals.
  • Extract from : « The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon » by J.A. Froude

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