'Misdemeanor' definitions:
Definition of 'misdemeanor'
(from WordNet)
noun
A crime less serious than a felony [syn: misdemeanor, misdemeanour, infraction, violation, infringement]
Definition of 'Misdemeanor'
From: GCIDE
- Misdemeanor \Mis`de*mean"or\, n.
- 1. Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) A crime less than a felony. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Misdeed; misconduct; misbehavior; fault; trespass; transgression. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'misdemeanor'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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