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
When an officer is killed feloniously, there is a “playbook” of investigations, of honors, of support for the family, said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the forum.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 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
Such an idea I had stumbled on in Grace Forbeach where one of the characters was made feloniously to possess himself of his own property and thereby rendered himself liable to penal servitude.
From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by David Christie Murray
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