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Felonious definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FELO'NIOUS, a.
1. Malignant; malicious; indicating or proceeding from a depraved heart or evil purpose; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; as a felonious deed.
2. In law, proceeding from an evil heart or purpose; done with the deliberate purpose to commit a crime; as felonious homicide.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent" [syn: criminal, felonious]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1567 1. archaic very evil ; villainous 2. of, relating to, or having the nature of a felony <felonious assault> • feloniously adverb • feloniousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 criminal. 2 Law a of or involving felony. b who has committed felony. Derivatives: feloniously adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Felonious Fe*lo"ni*ous, a. Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars? --Milton. -- Fe*lo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Fe*lo"ni*ous*ness, n.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Malignant, malign, malicious, villanous, nefarious, infamous, heinous, atrocious, cruel, felon. 2. Perfidious, traitorous, base, disloyal. 3. (Law.) Deliberately criminal, criminal, with malice prepense.

Moby Thesaurus

actionable, against the law, amoral, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, black-market, bootleg, chargeable, conscienceless, contraband, contrary to law, corrupt, corrupted, criminal, crooked, dark, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, doubtful, dubious, evasive, evildoing, fishy, flawed, fraudulent, ill-got, ill-gotten, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, immoral, impermissible, indirect, iniquitous, insidious, irregular, justiciable, lawless, malefactory, malfeasant, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, not kosher, outlaw, outlawed, punishable, questionable, rotten, shady, shameless, shifty, sinful, sinister, slippery, suspicious, triable, tricky, unallowed, unauthorized, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unlawful, unofficial, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstatutory, unstraightforward, unwarrantable, unwarranted, wicked, without remorse, without shame, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongful