feloniously
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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More police officers were feloniously killed in 2021 than any previous year since 1995.
From Fox News • Feb. 8, 2022
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
The attorney general’s office provided statistics dating back to 1987 on officers that were feloniously killed in the line of duty.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 26, 2019
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
Secondly, Madam, he deserves hanging for seducing, and most feloniously bearing away a young City-Heiress.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague
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