Felonious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wrongful