Definitions for felons

felons fel·on

Spelling: [fel-uh n]
IPA: /ˈfɛl ən/

Felons is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 104 anagrams from letters in felons (eflnos).

Definitions for felons

noun

  1. Law. a person who has committed a felony.
  2. Archaic. a wicked person.
  3. an acute and painful inflammation of the deeper tissues of a finger or toe, usually near the nail: a form of whitlow.

adjective

  1. Archaic. wicked; malicious; treacherous.

Origin of felons

1250-1300; Middle English fel(o)un “wicked, wicked person, evildoer,” from Old French fel (nominative), felun (oblique) “wicked person, traitor,” from Medieval Latin fellon-, stem of fello “v

Examples for felons

Burke and Schubert believe that adding to the list of felon profiles could close countless unsolved cases.

His dear friend, a felon, taken in open fight by a British cruiser!

They may arrest me as a felon—at any rate I shall be forced to leave the bank and go away.

A felon or domestic batterer or disturbed person need only find a person with a clean background to buy a weapon for him.

It seemed a lifetime that he had lived in the noisome atmosphere of a felon's cell.

Under that law a felon convicted of violent federal crimes for the third time would be sentenced to life in prison.

You must not leave me—you shall not—I am not to be deserted for the sake of a felon!

No man at last believes that he can be lost, nor that the crime in him is as black as in the felon.

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) is a grifter and a wingnut, but is he possibly a felon too?

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then maybe talk radio is the first refuge of felon.

Word Value for felons
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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