Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Law One who has committed a felony.
- n. Archaic An evil person.
- adj. Archaic Evil; cruel.
- n. A painful purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail. Also called whitlow.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A wicked person; a cruel, fierce person; one guilty of heinous crimes.
- n. In law, a person who has committed a felony. The term is not applicable after legal punishment has been completed.
- n. Felony.
- n. Synonyms Criminal, convict, malefactor, culprit, outlaw.
- Wicked; malignant; malicious; treacherous; proceeding from a depraved heart.
- Obtained by felony or crime; of goods, stolen.
- Wretched; forlorn.
- n. In medicine:
- n. An acute and painful inflammation of the deeper tissues of the finger or toe, especially of the distal phalanx, generally seated near the nail; paronychia; whitlow.
- n. A sort of inflammation in quadrupeds, similar to whitlow in man.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A person who has committed a felony.
- n. A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
- n. A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
- adj. Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime
- n. a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail
Etymologies
- Middle English feloun, from Old French felon, wicked, a wicked person, from Medieval Latin fellō, fellōn-, possibly of Germanic origin.Middle English feloun, probably from Latin fel, gall, bile; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Before I go any further I have to say the justice system goes too far in some or perhaps many cases for what a felon is and the penalties and restrictions once time has been served, they paid for the crime.”
“I do sense that you are invested in felon disenfranchisement for some reason, like I am invested in having a universal franchise.”
““I do sense that you are invested in felon disenfranchisement for some reason, like I am invested in having a universal franchise ….””
“I reason that if a felon is deemed too dangerous to possess a gun then why is he being turned loose in the first place?”
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“A convicted felon is going to be speaking at their convention.”
“A Republican felon is much better that the possibility of having a Liberal dictatorship in control of this country.”
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“I haven't seen the word felon used, I assume that you made that one up based on the corruption claim which is again pretty much made up by you from people claiming that she is beholden to special interest money.”
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“Truth be told, I've generally found your average convicted felon is a hell of a lot more decent than your average prison guard, who are allmost uniformly some of the most vile & despicable people I have ever met.”
“Sorry, Bruce, but the determining factor as to whether or if a felon can vote has nothing to do with socieity's determination as to if said felon is a "great risk to others.”
“Oh, and check out this update from the Chicago Sun-Times, which has done an amazing job dogging this story: A convicted felon is running one of the top Web sites trafficking in your private cell phone records.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘felon’.
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Words that shouldn't be used on a first date.
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Bad Options
words for those who commit particular crimes: i.e., bank robber, arsonist, etc.
liar, cheat, traitor, arsonist, felon, braggard, thief, profiteer, impostor, phony, fraud, culprit and 194 more...
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3/4 year Vocab List
garbled, verbose, behoove, runt, douse, stipulate, condolence, incongruous, mundane, euphemism, brusque, labyrinth and 96 more...
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3/4 year Vocab List
lackluster, reprimand, loathe, abhor, willful, ample, tremulous, ominous, subtle, rescind, redundant, pretentious and 96 more...
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Logolepsy
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
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yarb A female melon. Nov 12, 2007
mollusque A small abscess or boil; a whitlow. (Listed in OED2). See paronychia. Nov 12, 2007