noun
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A person who has committed a felony.
definition
A person who has been tried and convicted of a felony.
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A wicked person.
adjective
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Wicked; cruel
Examples of felon in a Sentence
The royal judges at Paris condemned John, as a felon, to death and the forfeiture of his fiefs (1203), and the murder of Arthur completed his ruin.
Trying to provoke a large, dangerous-looking felon from across the room is not funny.
Jackson had stopped by for Bumpus who reluctantly jumped into the back seat like an arrested felon.
Dean knew from his prior life the pair were just doing their job but that didn't mean he had to like being watched like a street felon.
These parliament enacted into the terrible statute of " The Six Articles," in which a felon's death was prescribed for those who obstinately denied transubstantiation, demanded the communion under both kinds, questioned the binding character of vows of chastity, or the lawfulness of private Masses or the expediency of auricular confession.
Okay, in T.I.'s defense, he did say that the reason behind the illegal weapons purchase (he's already a convicted felon) was because he was afraid that after someone murdered a friend of his last year, they would attempt to come after him.
And no equipment manufacturer was prepared to sponsor a known felon, on the run from justice.
The principal grounds for a divorce in Kansas are adultery, extreme cruelty, habitual drunkenness, abandonment for one year, gross neglect of duty, and imprisonment in the penitentiary as a felon subsequent to marriage, but the applicant for a divorce must have resided in the state the entire year preceding the presentment of the petition.
The range of intentions goes from being worried about someone's safety or tracking a felon to tracking an innocent person with plans to do harm when his or her guard is down.
Witherspoon felt optimistic about their case against Shakey Jake Morrison, the "alleged" felon.
A felon's death Jesus died a felon's death, a traitor to the ruling power in Rome.
One notable was George Howe, a former felon, who became the continent's first printer.
A felon's Death Jesus died a felon 's death, a traitor to the ruling power in Rome.
Mumford, who had torn down a United States flag placed by Farragut on the United States mint; and for this execution he was denounced (Dec. 1862) by President Davis as "a felon deserving capital punishment," who if captured should be reserved for execution.