feloniously
Americanadverb
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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
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
He was accused of being implicated in the abduction of the Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, and of feloniously receiving two silver basins as his share of the plunder.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
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