feloniously
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“Law enforcement officers are being feloniously killed in the line of duty at an alarming rate,” Wells said.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2022
One in eight officers who were feloniously killed died during a traffic stop, FBI statistics from 2019 show.
From Fox News • Oct. 10, 2021
It’s a strange objection from someone who rails against the growing blandness of New York — the chain stores and suburban sensibilities, the colonization by the rich, the boring, the feloniously ahistoric.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2021
A 2011 FBI survey found that of more than 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers, only three were feloniously killed by their own weapons in the line of duty.
From Slate • Aug. 10, 2017
He said, in case he should prove refractory, he might be apprehended by virtue of a friendly warrant, for having feloniously carried off the knight's accoutrements.
From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
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