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発音

• enPR: fə-lō'nē-əs
• 韻: -əʊniəs

形容詞

felonious (comparative more felonious, superlative most felonious)

1. Of, relating to, being, or having the quality of felony.

   The defendant must show that any bail money he hopes to post did not come from the felonious means.

   Synonyms: malignant, malicious, villainous, traitorous, perfidious

   • 1637, John Milton, Comus:

     O thievish Night, / Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, / In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars?

2. (law) Done with intent to commit a crime.

   felonious homicide

   • 2015, Kenneth J. Peak, Pamela M. Everett, Introduction to Criminal Justice: Practice and Process:

     First, as felony prosecutor, I prosecute high-level felonies including homicides; sexual assaults; child endangerings; shootings and other felonious assaults; and media cases.

派生語

関連する語

• felon
• felonize
• felonization

参考

• criminal
• misdemeanourous

参照

• “felonious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.