felonious

Speech parts

1. felonious - Adjective

2. felonious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

criminal malicious villainous penal base crooked bad evil illegal wrong banned prohibited forbidden corrupt foul
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Antonyms

right just legal bona fide effective correct
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Phrases with the word

felonious intent felonious behavior

Examples

true love is felonious... You take someone's breath away... You rob them of the ability to utter a single word... You steal a heart. Jodi Picoult

Keitel, the weak and willing tool, delivered the armed forces, the instrument of aggression, over to the party and directed them in executing its felonious designs. Wilhelm Keitel

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida. Vincent Bugliosi

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens. Scott Adams

The American of today, in fact, probably enjoys less personal liberty than any other man of Christendom, and even his political liberty is fast succumbing to the new dogma that certain theories of government are virtuous and lawful, and others abhorrent and felonious. H. L. Mencken

a criminal offense Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

felon felon herb feloness felonious behavior felonious intent feloniously