felonious
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We thought flopping and foul-baiting made for unethical hoops, but those are but basketball misdemeanors; Adebayo’s big night was felonious.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026
It may not have been felonious enough to demand civil punishment, but it certainly required banishment from the game and from any of its rewards.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2025
Their deaths amounted 5% of the 60 law enforcement officials who died that year because of felonious incidents.
From Seattle Times • May 2, 2024
"We qualify such a felonious deed as a crime - as an act of dehumanisation," Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Radio Sputnik.
From Reuters • Oct. 18, 2023
It helps, though, to read with a felonious mind.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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