13 Verbs to Use for the Word misdemeanor

As to the dissolution, it was asked what misdemeanor the late House of Commons had committed?

And she looked at the Parson with the air of a culprit who has confessed a terrible misdemeanor.

Sahwah was still counting up her own misdemeanors at camp when the Evans's automobile came for Gladys, and reluctantly all the girls prepared to go home.

In matters of less serious offences, of legislation creating misdemeanors or merely declaring certain acts unlawful, there are three main lines: First, legislation usually expressive of the common law against conspiracies of all sorts, combinations both of individuals and of capital, already fully discussed.

This was said while the vicar was still making his bow to his new parishioner, who knew very well that her visitors had not intended to call; for the Turners were dissenters, to crown all their misdemeanors, beside being city people and nouveaux riches.

We hung about her in every attitude of entreatyacknowledged our misdemeanors, promised amendment, and an entire confession of all the sins we had ever perpetrated.

Agony's voice hinted at the awful consequences which would follow such a misdemeanor.

But being the first that recovered presence of mind; madame, I beseech you, said he, involve not the innocent with the guilty:I acknowledge you have reason to resent the boldness of the count; but I am no otherwise a sharer in his crime than in reporting it; and if you knew the pain it gave my heart while I complied with the promise I was unhappily betrayed into, I am sure you would forgive the misdemeanor of my tongue.

It may include misdemeanors with graver offenses.

Laws have been passed in most States making family desertion a misdemeanor, and in New York a recent law has made it a felony.

Many of the young men belonged to respectable families, while many were old offenders, who had been permitted to escape for fear of provoking graver misdemeanors.

Again, they are, if you will permit the expression, like an advanced guard; if they allow a misdemeanor to pass, it is like allowing the enemy to pass.

"That is one way we have of punishing slight misdemeanors in our kingdom, Captain Plum.

13 Verbs to Use for the Word  misdemeanor