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Felonious
CIDE DICTIONARY
Felonious, 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. [1913 Webster]
"O thievish Night,
Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end,
In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars?"
Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end,
In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars?"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Felonious, adj.
1 criminal.
2 Law a of or involving felony. b who has committed felony.
1 criminal.
2 Law a of or involving felony. b who has committed felony.
Derivative
feloniously adv.
THESAURUS
Felonious
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, wrongfulROGET THESAURUS
Felonious
Vice
N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.For further exploring for "Felonious" in Webster Dictionary Online