What's the difference between felonous and wicked?

Felonous


Definition:

  • (a.) Wicked; felonious.

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.

Wicked


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
  • (a.) Evil in principle or practice; deviating from morality; contrary to the moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin; sinful; immoral; profligate; -- said of persons and things; as, a wicked king; a wicked woman; a wicked deed; wicked designs.
  • (a.) Cursed; baneful; hurtful; bad; pernicious; dangerous.
  • (a.) Ludicrously or sportively mischievous; disposed to mischief; roguish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I had a not altogether satisfactory talk with Mark this morning" begins a typical confidential memo from Nigel Wicks, Mrs Thatcher's principal private secretary, to the British ambassador in Washington.
  • (2) It’s a wicked thing to do.” Thomson said the federal government had not notified him about approaching boats since 2009.
  • (3) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
  • (4) Fluid pressure changes and digital load measurements were simultaneously detected and recorded by use of, respectively, modified wick-in-needle and force plate transducers coupled to a microcomputer.
  • (5) In cats, brain tissue pressure (BTP) was measured by the wick-catheter method.
  • (6) The lack of knowledge about proper feeding and the use of bottles, fingers, and cotton wicks, which contribute to infection, diarrhea, and malnutrition, indicates a need for better health education.
  • (7) The light stimuli are provided by a Ganzfeld stimulator and the potentials are recorded with a disposable corneal wick electrode.
  • (8) IFP was measured in squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck region in humans using the wick-in-needle technique.
  • (9) Our results on Ap4A are in contrast with those reported previously (C. Weinmann-Dorsch, G. Pierron, R. Wick, H. Sauer, and F. Grummt, Exp.
  • (10) Resembling a billhook, with Foule Crag its wickedly curved tip, this final flourish looks daunting but can be skirted to one side, up awkward slabs.
  • (11) titration with wicks pre-loaded with serial dilutions of rat plasma implanted post mortem for 15-20 min.
  • (12) Dance, perform, party in Hackney Wick One of my favourite venues in London is The Yard Theatre.
  • (13) Less conventional still is Muff Cafe, a custom-motorbike-workshop-cum-really-rather-good-organic-restaurant in Hackney Wick that a friend recommends on condition that "you don't fill it with Guardian readers".
  • (14) The wick catheter technique was developed in 1968 for measurement of subcutaneous pressure and has been modified for easy intramuscular insertion and continuous recording of interstitial fluid pressure in animals and humans.
  • (15) The corneal wick electrode is employed for bright flash electroretinogram (ERG) recordings and for research measurements of the early receptor potential.
  • (16) In the longer term, there is a risk that local government will be seen as being wicked or incompetent as it struggles to meet George Osborne's new spending figures.
  • (17) His next book was The Great Crash 1929 (1955), a wickedly entertaining account of what happened on Wall Street in that year.
  • (18) The mistake in most international crises is to over-personalise the issue by making a pariah of the wicked man and his corrupt family at the top and thinking that, once they go, all problems will easily be solved.
  • (19) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
  • (20) Tissue pressures were recorded using saline-filled cotton-wool wicks.

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