About The Word Misdemeanor
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Misdemeanor
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What's The Definition Of Misdemeanor?
[n] a crime less serious than a felony
Synonyms | Synonyms for Misdemeanor: infraction | infringement | misdemeanour | offence | offense | violation Related Terms | Find terms related to Misdemeanor: atrocity | badness | breach | crime | crime against humanity | criminal tendency | criminality | criminosis | deadly sin | delict | delinquency | dereliction | discourtesy | disorder | disorderliness | disorderly conduct | disruption | disruptiveness | enormity | error | evil | evil courses | evildoing | failure | fault | feloniousness | felony | frowned-upon behavior | genocide | guilty act | heavy sin | hooliganism | horseplay | illegality | impropriety | indiscretion | inexpiable sin | iniquity | injury | injustice | lapse | lawbreaking | malefaction | malfeasance | malpractice | malum | malversation | minor wrong | misbehavior | misconduct | misdeed | misdoing | misfeasance | misprision | misprision of treason | mortal sin | naughtiness | nonfeasance | nonsanctioned behavior | offense | omission | outrage | peccadillo | peccancy | positive misprision | roughhouse | rowdiness | rowdyism | ruffianism | sin | sin of commission | sin of omission | sinful act | slip | thou scarlet sin | tort | transgression | trespass | trip | unutterable sin | vandalism | venial sin | vice | viciousness | violation | wrong | wrong conduct | wrongdoing See Also | bearing false witness | breach of the peace | crime | disorderly behavior | disorderly conduct | disturbance of the peace | false pretence | false pretense | indecent exposure | law-breaking | lying under oath | perjury | public nudity | sedition Misdemeanor In Webster's Dictionary \Mis`de*mean"or\, n.
1. Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault. --Shak.
2. (Law) A crime less than a felony. --Wharton.
Note: As a rule, in the old English law, offenses capitally
punishable were felonies; all other indictable offenses
were misdemeanors. In common usage, the word crime is
employed to denote the offenses of a deeper and more
atrocious dye, while small faults and omissions of less
consequence are comprised under the gentler name of
misdemeanors. --Blackstone. The distinction, however,
between felonies and misdemeanors is purely arbitrary,
and is in most jurisdictions either abrogated or so far
reduced as to be without practical value. Cf. {Felony}.
--Wharton.
Syn: Misdeed; misconduct; misbehavior; fault; trespass;
transgression.
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