feloniously
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9.4
- adverb
- /fəˈloʊniəsli/
- Specialized
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delictivamente
- You are charged for that you, on the 17th day of November, 1950 at 37 Flixton Street, North 1, did unlawfully and feloniously use an instrument on Pamela Mary Barnes, contrary to Section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act, 1861.
- feloniously killed
Examples
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And you do further say that these gunshots were discharged by a person or persons unknown, feloniously, that is to say, with intent to murder.
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Case in point: it appears the No on 37 Committee funded by Monsanto et al. have feloniously misled the public.
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Hundreds of police have been feloniously killed with firearms over the past decade.
Academic text (2017) -
"That Davis Knight did knowingly "and willfully and feloniously "violate Mississippi law "by engaging in a marital union with one Junie Lee Spradley, "a white woman.
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The FBI's latest Uniform Crime Report reveals that, of the 505 law enforcement officers feloniously killed between 2005 and 2014, 128 (roughly 25%) were killed either investigating a suspicious person/circumstance or during a routine traffic violation stop.
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The lawyer argued that the defendant had acted feloniously when he broke into the store to steal items.
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He was accused of feloniously conspiring to commit fraud over several months before his arrest.
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The report stated that the group had feloniously engaged in activities that violated the law.
Synonyms
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6.5
In a way that breaks the law
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6.8
In a way that breaks the law or rules
How Illegal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Feloniously comes from the simpler word felon and the related word felony, both meaning 'a serious crime' or the person who does it. So, to act feloniously is to act 'in a criminal way', usually connected with a serious crime.