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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
- 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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