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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