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Another word for felony

Noun

  1. A serious breaking of the public law

    2. See also:

    crimes

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Another word for felony

Noun
    2. See also:

    crime

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • All this was abolished by the Felony Act 1870, which provided for the appointment of an administrator to the property of the convict.

  • Bigamy (in its modern sense) was thus made felony (i Jac. I.

  • It was applied to treason felony in 1848.

  • An assistant District Attorney had called about prosecuting a felony drug possession, but the second note was upsetting.

  • (5) No inhabitant of England (except persons contracting, or, after conviction for felony, electing to be transported) shall be sent prisoner to Scotland, Ireland, Jersey, &c., or any place beyond the seas.

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