felonious

Example Sentences

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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

"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

A state trooper in Michigan has been acquitted by a jury after being charged with felonious assault for using a police dog to subdue an unarmed, injured man in 2020, prosecutors said.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2023

Duchess, the felonious foil to law-abiding Emmett, does not open Amor Towles’ new novel, “The Lincoln Highway,” with those words.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 5, 2021

It helps, though, to read with a felonious mind.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner