as in criminal
contrary to or forbidden by law
the commission found that while the senator's actions were ethically questionable, they were not felonious
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Recent Examples of felonious
Grubb faces four counts of murder, four counts of felonious assault and two counts of involuntary manslaughter, according to an indictment filed Tuesday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
The suspect, Gary Lansky, of Detroit, was taken into custody that day and was later charged with assault with intent to murder and felonious assault.
—Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 11 Oct. 2024
Mack Ogletree faces multiple counts of felonious assault.
—Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2024
Mack Ogletree, 36, is charged with two counts of felonious assault in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2024
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2024
The suspect, Gary Lansky, of Detroit, was taken into custody that day and was later charged with assault with intent to murder and felonious assault.
—Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 11 Oct. 2024
Mack Ogletree faces multiple counts of felonious assault.
—Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2024
Mack Ogletree, 36, is charged with two counts of felonious assault in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court.
—Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for felonious
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Officers conducting a preliminary investigation reviewed messages the student had left on Discord, an online chatting app used by gamers and others, and arrested the student on suspicion of making criminal threats.Karen Kucher, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Those schools were, according to former pupils, hotbeds of cruelty and child abuse — an independent investigation in 2005 found evidence of criminal assault at the boys’ school in the 1970s and ’80s — as well as highly traditionalist values.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Court documents show a Maricopa County Superior Court grand jury indicted Jeffrey Michael Kelly on Oct. 29 on four counts of unlawful use of an infectious biological substance or radiological agent.Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner sued Musk and America PAC over the offer, calling it an unlawful lottery under Pennsylvania law and leading to Monday’s court hearing.David Ingram, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Official fireworks shows took place over the city, and illegal pyrotechnics lit up the sky everywhere in between.Lisa Beebe, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 July 2017
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Louisville police say anything that goes into the air or explodes is illegal for average citizens.James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 5 July 2017
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On Tuesday, Vice President Nguema Obiang Mangue ordered new measures to prevent judiciary and ministry officials from engaging in illicit acts at work, a government statement said.Reuters, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2024
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Cases like these — and the slew of illicit shops padlocked by police on the local news — have the potential to alarm Americans who have only just begun to support the notion of legalization, and provide fuel for those who are opposed to it.Lavanya Ramanathan, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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Her opponent, Franky Carrillo, is a criminal justice reform advocate who was exonerated on a wrongful murder conviction.Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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The executions also confirm that the government makes mistakes and takes shortcuts that lead to wrongful convictions.Brian Stull, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
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“Felonious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/felonious. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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