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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
- 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
felony = serious crime
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