What is another word for felon?
Synonyms for felon
ˈfɛl ənfelon
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Princeton's WordNet
criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactornoun
someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
Synonyms:
whitlow, twist, shepherd's crook, malefactor, bend, turn, crook, criminal, outlawfelon, whitlownoun
a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail
Synonyms:
outlaw, crook, whitlow, criminal, malefactor
Editors Contribution
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1007 | turn | |
#2384 | criminal | |
#6506 | bend | |
#7835 | twist | |
#17392 | outlaw | |
#25335 | crook | |
#45389 | felon | |
#66659 | mobster | |
#77910 | hoodlum | |
#104244 | whitlow | |
#241807 | malefactor |
How to use felon in a sentence?
Article 35 of the (New York) penal law permits you to use deadly physical force to stop a fleeing felon who is either charged with a felony or convicted of a felony, so the police officer was spot on.
How could he do something like that? This is a convicted felon. He killed police officers in New York.
We saw earlier this year that, even though four of the current justices are ready to take up a number of Second Amendment cases, they weren't sure if they had a fifth vote on the merits -- because they weren't sure about the chief justice, it seems likely that the confirmation of Judge Barrett would remove that uncertainty and open the pipeline to a flurry of Second Amendment cases, perhaps ranging from the constitutionality of criminal felon-in-possession statutes to large-capacity magazine bans.
Dangerous and illegal weapons are off the street, and a previously convicted felon has been arrested.
He'll be a felon for the rest of his life, he's on the sex offender registry for a long time. Maybe not the rest of his life because of the level, but this isn't something that didn't cause him pain, and this isn't something that didn't have consequences.
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