(a.) A kind of whitlow; a painful imflammation of the periosteum of a finger, usually of the last joint.
(a.) Characteristic of a felon; malignant; fierce; malicious; cruel; traitorous; disloyal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experts say there are other arms of the federal octopus that could be squeezed in a bid to thwart Obama’s deferred action schemes, but even that would not affect the directive that tells immigration officials to focus on deporting “felons, not families”.
(2) Infectious causes of finger pain include cellulitis, tendinitis, paronychia, felon, and infectious emboli, which generally require antibiotics with or without drainage.
(3) It is concluded that the latter conditions occur in no more than two or three per cent of all felons.
(4) For sympathisers, who may or may not share his ideological beliefs, the hunger striker is the embodiment of injustice – a young man no longer seen as a convicted felon, but a victim wronged by authorities determined to quash dissent.
(5) Masih struggled to find work as a convicted felon stripped of his medical licence but last year landed a post running an addiction recovery centre in Petersburg.
(6) In a letter to Hernandez, Abbott warned that her policy risked unleashing dangerous foreign felons on to the streets of Texas and pledged to withhold future criminal justice division grant money, which last year was worth $1.8m to Travis County.
(7) Felons' scores on the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test tended to be positively correlated with their scores on clinical scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personaltiy Inventory.
(8) Those lesions must be distinguished from milker's nodules, botryomycosis and above all felon because ORF disease never require surgery.
(9) Donald Trump rang in 2017 at a New Year’s Eve bash at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Joseph Cinque – reportedly a convicted felon who goes by the nickname “Joey No Socks”.
(10) Indeed, you’re still potentially a felon if you unlock a new device.
(11) Duane Ehmer, the Oregon occupier frequently photographed with his horse at the refuge, is a convicted felon banned from possessing firearms – but he, too, was carrying a pistol when he was arrested last week, according to the records.
(12) data are utilized to examine the processing of all elderly felons (N = 1,562) compared to felons twenty to fifty-nine (N = 160,413) to determine if elderly felons "get off easier."
(13) The court states that the felon had known about the rapper since 2006, but as he didn't file his lawsuit - which included Warner Bros Records, Universal Music and Jay Z as those who allegedly helped the hip hop star to fame with his stolen identity - until 2010 this was deemed by a California appeals court to be untimely.
(14) Ninety-two intravenous drug users (IVDUs) were identified from a study of 1,640 relatives of treated alcoholics and felons.
(15) Later, Batkid apprehended a known felon called Penguin before being handed the key to the city by an understandably grateful mayor.
(16) Subjects were 136 male convicted felons in the Kentucky State Penitentiary.
(17) Grave infections include felon, purulent tenosynovitis, thenar infections, septic arthritis and human bites.
(18) The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) will be composed of three sub-indices: a statistical database, which will contain frequencies of DNA fragment alleles in various population groups; an investigative database which will enable linkage of violent crimes through a common subject; and a convicted felon database that will serve to maintain DNA typing profiles for comparison to profiles developed from violent crimes where the suspect may be unknown.
(19) From a family study of 286 alcoholics, 157 felons, 60 control subjects, and 1640 of their relatives, 130 solvent users were retrospectively identified.
(20) An idiot husband, a footballing felon: but Huma Abedin rises above it all | Peter Bradshaw Read more The close ties to such a controversial figure have made her a lightning rod for political attacks.
Leniency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Investigators have frequently noted a leniency bias in mock jury research, in which deliberation appears to induce greater leniency in criminal mock jurors.
(2) SC Johnson, Colgate and Henkel, which alerted the competiton watchdog, will benefit from varying degrees of leniency, with Mr Muscle maker SC Johnson receiving total immunity.
(3) The Valencia official, who is apparently known in La Liga for his leniency, was marked out after drawing regular praise from the Portuguese over his three-year spell coaching Real Madrid.
(4) The referee, Martin Atkinson, could feasibly have shown four red cards and his leniency was starting to feel absurd when Danny Welbeck lunged in two-footed on Cesc Fàbregas during the closing exchanges and it was deemed worthy only of a booking.
(5) There was similar leniency from Alberto Mallenco at the opposite end as Gordon Greer was late on Robert Lewandowski.
(6) On Tuesday Khamenei used the expression "heroic leniency", which is being interpreted as a euphemism for a softer stance on foreign policy.
(7) Before sentencing, the soldiers' private lawyers pleaded for leniency, saying some of the defendants supported aged parents, others were the sole breadwinners in their family, and some of them had served in the army for 10 years, including in foreign peacekeeping missions.
(8) Although there have been a string of precedents in which clubs lost points for selecting ineligible players, Premier League rules allow scope for leniency in situations such as Ji's which involve a lack of international clearance.
(9) UBS, as the first bank to reveal the existence of investigations into Libor , is receiving leniency for co-operating with inquiries.
(10) I tried to make small talk with him to buy some leniency, telling him I was just a reporter.
(11) There have been a number of disturbing instances recently of such leniency, but at the moment they are not offences that can be referred.
(12) But the commutations are particularly significant because they are the first issued under new guidelines announced this year designed to cut costs by reducing the nation’s bulging prison population and grant leniency to nonviolent drug offenders sentenced to double-digit terms.
(13) Analysts say her freedom provided a way for the politicised court to show leniency in a case that won attention around the world.
(14) Arsenal's manager felt Naismith and Leighton Baines should also have been cautioned for fouls on Mikel Arteta and Santi Cazorla respectively but leniency from the referee, Martin Atkinson, was the least of his worries.
(15) Agüero had gone round Trapp before being taken down and the Spanish official plainly thought the angle the ball was heading meant there should be some leniency.
(16) Kilmister adds: "We have tried to argue that this [leniency deal] is totally undeserved and unjust and an insult to the elderly people who have suffered financial exploitation at Peverel's hands."
(17) It appeared, however, that there was more leniency toward time off from work to accompany children to appointments in the military population.
(18) My respected sir, I’m asking for forgiveness and leniency from you so that my sentence can be lightened.” LBH Masyarakat (@LBHMasyarakat) Here is a personal letter from Merri Utami to President Joko Widodo, asking for forgiveness.
(19) New York prosecutors detailed the cooperation of Hector Xavier Monsegur for the first time in court papers while asking a judge to reward him with leniency at his sentencing on Tuesday.
(20) In a final overall analysis, older adults were more lenient than the young in memory failure judgments, and their differential leniency was most apparent in judgments of the serious vignettes.