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Definition

someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a serious crime (a felony)

Each state determines how long a felon is denied the right to vote.

It's difficult for ex-felons to find work.
He's not supposed to carry it since he's a felon, but he says that technically he doesn't carry it.
Angie Thomas -- The Hate U Give

felon = someone convicted of a serious crime

I have the misfortune to be a convicted felon, who has spent the last ten or a dozen years amongst the scum of the earth...
E. Phillips Oppenheim -- The Malefactor
A common man, an impostor, a felon, was never thus waited upon.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
I do defy thy conjurations, And apprehend thee for a felon here.
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
Are you willing to risk her life out of loyalty to a felon?
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
Thus branded as a felon by myself, How had I dared to look you in the face?
Sophocles -- Oedipus the King
"That was a felon stroke!" exclaimed the Black Knight, as the steed fell to the earth, bearing his rider along with him.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
But she had never envisioned herself prowling halls and staircases like a nervous felon, with a knife clasped in one hand to use against Jack.
Stephen King -- The Shining
She looked, and as she scanned the distance she said in her own heart, 'Surely this is some felon; where is he going now?'
Unknown -- The Epic of Gilgamesh
To his mind Lamorak deserved death, like a felon, because he and his father had injured the Orkney clan.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
They are housed, at times, in the same pod with accused rapists and other felons.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey
'Here's the vagrant—the felon—the rebel—the monster of unthankfulness.'
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
Felons don't work at the Circle.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
Believe what they tell you, stoke up your wrath, And drive me like a felon from your path.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe
"He hev been away from home for a few days, since he's had that felon upon his finger; for 'a said, since I can't work I'll have a hollerday."
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
I might be a convicted felon, but as the daughter of teachers, I had a strong aversion to cheating on tests.
Piper Kerman -- Orange Is the New Black
Neither the name of Smith or Hickock was reflected in the felon registration file.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
"Well," I said, "when all the dogs and cats were eaten the Government passed a law that we should eat felons.
John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues

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