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a serious crime (such as murder or arson)

He can plead guilty to a misdemeanor offense or be tried for a felony.

It's much more difficult to find a job with a felony conviction.
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
Carl Bernstein
In Maycomb County, hunting out of season was a misdemeanor at law, a capital felony in the eyes of the populace.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

felony = serious crime

I do further admit that I did, deliberately and shamelessly, compound my wife's felony.
Jack London -- Jerry of the Islands
I will make it felony to drink small beer.
William Shakespeare -- King Henry VI, Part 2
Right after "felony convictions."
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
'Do you know,' said I, as we walked along the passage, 'what felony was Number Twenty Seven's last "folly"?'
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
These chargeswere felonies, and if they remained on his record, he would never be allowed to be a doctor.
Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street
"Which of these was the good deed, which was the felony?" interrupted the Knight.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
The placard above it read: "No Northern hemp shall help to punish our felony."
Ann Petry -- Harriet Tubman
I'd inform if he were my own son: and it's felony without benefit of clergy!'
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
That earlier felony conviction had not prevented him from supplying one-quarter of the ground beef served in the USDA school lunch program.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
Somewhere in the garrison a pimply-faced Unterscharfuhrer, frozen with terror, would hear himself accused of this reckless felony.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
'It's not exactly a felony.
Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
But the fact of matter is, you've committed a felony and the whole world knows it.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
The poor couple must have thought they had stumbled on a case of felony child neglect.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
I guess we are aiding and abetting a felony, Watson?
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
His clothes are a little freaky maybe, but that's a misdemeanor here, not a felony.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Speak

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