11 adjectives to describe defendant

This and her downcast modest demeanor were perhaps at first disappointing to the crowd, who had evidently expected a paragon of lovelinessas the Circe of the grim ascetic defendant, who sat beside his counsel.

The old man had collapsedtough luckthe defendant was cooked!

*** A female defendant at a London police court last week was given the choice of prison or marriage, and preferred to get married.

This and her downcast modest demeanor were perhaps at first disappointing to the crowd, who had evidently expected a paragon of lovelinessas the Circe of the grim ascetic defendant, who sat beside his counsel.

Then rose at the call of justice, militantly and with a curious air of proprietorship in the overmarried defendant, the wife or maiden who in earlier days had answered to the name of Alvina Woodcock.

But why, he may ask, should he be judged by Lord Hardinge, himself a prospective defendant at the bar of public opinion?

The person arraigned, and his father and brother, who also had a share both of the reproof from the pulpit, and in the retaliation, brought an action against Mr. Thompson, in the court of session, for defamation and damages, and I was one of the counsel for the reverend defendant.

But this time, in order to secure the presence of our slippery defendant, he issued a warrant for his apprehension, and the constable had orders to take him into custody and lodge him in prison, the night before the day when the case was to come on.

Presently there appears upon the road a slinking, stealthy figurethe defendant, on his way to church.

Then the unruly defendant answers: "May it please your Honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty," and more to the same effect, all of which she has lived up to.

With this end in view the unscrupulous defendants in the case had employed Mandit to procure the papers; and that astute criminal manager had not only arranged all the details of the affair, but had gone himself to the scene of action in order to see that there should be no mistake in carrying out the details of this most important piece of business.

11 adjectives to describe  defendant