felonious
adjEtymology From Middle English *felonious (implied in feloniously; compare felonous); equivalent to felony + -ous.
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.
- O thievish Night, / Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, / In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars?1637, John Milton, Comus:
2
Law Done with intent to commit a crime.
- felonious homicide
- First, as felony prosecutor, I prosecute high-level felonies including homicides; sexual assaults; child endangerings; shootings and other felonious assaults; and media cases.2015, Kenneth J. Peak, Pamela M. Everett, Introduction to Criminal Justice: Practice and Process:
- Synonyms
- malignant, malicious, villainous, traitorous, perfidious
- Derived terms
- feloniously, feloniousness, infelonious, nonfelonious, unfelonious
- Related terms
- felon, felonize, felonization, criminal, misdemeanourous