Crossword clues for felon
felon
- Robber, e.g
- Prison occupant
- Lifer, e.g
- Kidnapper, e.g
- Counterfeiter, e.g
- Career criminal
- Word from Old French for "traitor"
- Wanted poster subject
- Sing Sing resident
- Serious lawbreaker
- Many a convict
- Hardened criminal
- Convicted crook
- Arsonist, for instance
- Word from Old French for "wicked person"
- Wanted poster figure
- Very bad rocker
- Time server, usually
- Someone with a record
- Person with a serious crime on their record
- Person on a Most Wanted List
- One in maximum security, say
- Finger infection
- Disenfranchised person, in many states
- Cooler person?
- Convicted arsonist, e.g
- Con, perhaps
- Celled con
- Cell user, often
- Can candidate
- Burglar, e.g
- Big-time perp
- Big-time criminal
- Arsonist, for one
- Arsonist or burglar
- Any Sing Sing inmate
- "Orange Is the New Black" prisoner
- One facing life, maybe
- One in a pen
- Malefactor
- One who has life to look forward to?
- Convicted criminal
- Joint tenant?
- Arsonist, e.g.
- Menace to society
- Record holder?
- Person with a serious conviction
- Supermax resident
- Pen pal?
- Counterfeiter, e.g.
- A purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail
- Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
- Attica resident, e.g.
- Criminal and more
- Serious offender
- Burglar, e.g.
- Burglar, for one
- Jack the Ripper was one
- Kind of criminal
- Lawbreaker
- Prison inmate
- Crook fleeces exec at first, taking half of capital
- Cop's quarry
- Bad guy
- Major criminal
- Serious criminal
- Pen resident
- One with convictions
- Arsonist, e.g
- Certain criminal
- Pen denizen
- Joint tenant
- "Orange Is the New Black" extra
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Felon \Fel"on\, n. [OE., adj., cruel, n., villain, ruffian, traitor, whitlow, F. f['e]lon traitor, in OF. also, villain, fr. LL. felo. See Fell, a.]
(Law) A person who has committed a felony.
A person guilty or capable of heinous crime.
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(Med.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
Syn: Criminal; convict; malefactor; culprit.
Felon \Fel"on\, a. Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
Vain shows of love to vail his felon hate.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "one who deceives or commits treason; one who is wicked or evil; evil-doer," used of Lucifer and Herod, from Old French felon "evil-doer, scoundrel, traitor, rebel, oath-breaker, the Devil" (9c.), from Medieval Latin fellonem (nominative fello) "evil-doer," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Frankish *fillo, *filljo "person who whips or beats, scourger" (source of Old High German fillen "to whip"); or from Latin fel "gall, poison," on the notion of "one full of bitterness." Celtic origins also have been proposed.\n
\nAnother theory (advanced by Professor R. Atkinson of Dublin) traces it to Latin fellare "to suck" (see fecund), which had an obscene secondary meaning in classical Latin (well-known to readers of Martial and Catullus), which would make a felon etymologically a "cock-sucker." OED inclines toward the "gall" explanation, but finds Atkinson's "most plausible" of the others.\n
\nAlso by c.1300 in English in a general legal sense "criminal; one who has committed a felony," however that was defined. Century Dictionary notes, "the term is not applicable after legal punishment has been completed." In Middle English it also was an adjective, "traitorous, wicked, malignant." Australian official James Mudie (1837), coined felonry "as the appellative of an order or class of persons in New South Wales,
--an order which happily exists in no other country in the world."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A person who has committed a felony. 2 (context legal English) A person who has been trial and conviction of a felony. Etymology 2
n. (context medicine English) A bacterial infection at the end of a finger or toe.
WordNet
n. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime [syn: criminal, crook, outlaw, malefactor]
a purulent infection at the end of a finger or toe in the area surrounding the nail [syn: whitlow]
Wikipedia
Felon is a 2008 American prison film written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh. The film stars Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer and Harold Perrineau. The film tells the story of the family man who ends up in state prison after he kills an intruder. The story is based on events that took place in the 1990s at the notorious California State Prison, Corcoran. The film was released in the United States on July 18, 2008.
A felon is someone who commits a felony.
Felon may also refer to:
- Felon (film), a 2008 drama film starring Val Kilmer
- Whitlow, an infection at the end of the finger
- Felon, Territoire de Belfort, a commune of the Franche-Comté region, in France
Usage examples of "felon".
Extensive research by the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI academy and in-depth interviews with incarcerated felons who have committed such crimes have provided a vast body of knowledge of common elements, that link crime scene dynamics to specific criminal personality patterns.
Bunter, who had slipped quickly down from the steps, stood, chain in hand, as though ready to put the gyves on a felon when he heard the word.
The moment we were on the road, I told him that I was going to part company, because I was afraid of being sent as a felon to the galleys if I continued my journey with him.
November balloting, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State Katherine Harris ordered local elections supervisors to purge 57,700 voters from registries on grounds they were felons not entitled to vote in Florida.
No eavesdropper could have sworn that Art Bonner was speaking to the soon-to-be-notorious felon, Anthony Rand.
There was apparently no crime Mark Messinger was incapable of committing-the well-rounded felon with a major in murder and minors in armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.
To discourage him from lashing out at me, I hired a large and scarily violent felon by the name of Rudy Wismer to watch my back in the yard, at meals, and on the block, paying for his services with a supply of the X-rated Japanese comics that were his sexual candy.
Once the wife of a man with a high place in the world, worldlings will be too wise to wound her by telling her that her grandfather was an unconvicted felon.
He is an unindicted and unconvicted felon as well as a citizen and a taxpayer.
Standing here with his guilty, yet unconvicted, felon felt somehow appropriate.
From mid-November through the New Year we captured a total of eleven hard felons, eighteen traffic warrantees and three parole and probation absconders.
Vail, who was getting a bit of a belly on him now that his days were spent largely riding a chair instead of being out ahorseback in active pursuit of wanted felons, paced the length of the room a few times in silence before taking his own much more comfortable seat at the desk.
He felt a fool: he had thought Amri innocent, and she was simply a felon who had been trapped too many times.
Gropp was on greased rails to spend his declining years for Brutality While Under Color of Service -- a serious offense-- in a maxi-galleria stuffed chockablock with felons whose spiritual brethren he had maimed, crushed, debased, blinded, butchered, and killed.
The Ducks were a loosely organized gang of felons who had tickets-of-leave from the English penal colony in Australia.