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Example sentences for "misdemeanours"

Lexicographically close words:
misdeed; misdeeds; misdemeanor; misdemeanors; misdemeanour; misdirect; misdirected; misdirection; misdoing; misdoings
  1. Not content with heaping on the culprit's head all the misdemeanours of which he has been guilty and many crimes of which he has not been guilty, the bourgeois organs try to strip him of his one incontrovertible attribute,--courage.

  2. And do you not see that our justice merely tends, in all its pride, to this shame of avenging an evil by an evil, a suffering by a suffering, and in doubling misdemeanours and crimes in the name of equilibrium and symmetry?

  3. One thing was clear, on comparing notes, that a very considerable number of misdemeanours were committed every Saturday; and that, altogether, they were not punished without cause.

  4. Other prisoners were committed to the Fleet for political misdemeanours and severely dealt with by the ruling powers.

  5. That there were misdemeanours I don't deny; and of course you are too good for the likes of me; but your coming away wasn't my fault, was it.

  6. Will you assure this young firebrand that my misdemeanours didn't force you to leave me.

  7. Among many other high crimes and misdemeanours of which I am accused, it is asserted that I have abused the great masters.

  8. All were found guilty, but upon a recommendation of mercy they were sentenced as having committed misdemeanours rather than felonies.

  9. An indictment lies for "all treasons and felonies, for misprision of treasons and felonies and for all misdemeanours of a public nature at common law.

  10. Misdemeanours and crimes at common law, when wilfully committed, have in all countries always remained misdemeanours and crimes, whatever motive can be conveniently put forward to account for them.

  11. So long as the three confined their misdemeanours to the school the public had winked at them.

  12. One wonders what happened when the man produced compurgators and the lady failed to do so: for these misdemeanours a deux the compurgatorial system would seem a little uncertain.

  13. Although the courts-martial have mixed up with the condemned of the Commune a bad element, totally foreign to this revolution, common misdemeanours are very rare.

  14. A further sub-classification was attempted by separating at night those charged with misdemeanours from those charged with felony, but all mingled freely during the day in the yard.

  15. Must another pleasure be sacrificed to that very naughty Dolores, whose misdemeanours had deprived them of the visit to Rotherwood.

  16. To which argument she stuck, being offended as well as scandalized at being set aside for such a culprit as Dolores, whose misdemeanours and discourtesy were equally shocking to her imagination.

  17. Treason and most felonies and some misdemeanours would under foreign codes fall under the head of crime.

  18. On charges of felony and a few misdemeanours the court may order the accused person to pay the expenses of his prosecution in relief of the local rate.

  19. In England most of them are described as petty misdemeanours or offences punishable on summary conviction, or less happily as "summary offences," and some writers speak of them as mala prohibita as distinguished from mala in se, i.

  20. In the case of all other felonies and of many misdemeanours the expense of the prosecution falls on the local rate.

  21. Pecuniary fine, a punishment appropriate only to misdemeanours and never imposed for a felony except under statutory authority, e.

  22. The principle has been also extended to misdemeanours (but not to felonies) committed by public officers out of Great Britain, whether within or without the British dominions.

  23. In the case of other misdemeanours the expense falls on the prosecutor.

  24. Police supervision, on conviction or indictment of felony and certain misdemeanours after a previous conviction of such offences.

  25. In 1582 articles of misdemeanours were drawn up against him by Henry Bidlake and some of the parishioners, but as far as can be learnt without effect.

  26. Conversation upon past misdemeanours may under no circumstances take place; nor may one inmate reproach another with any crime which he may have committed, or with his past mode of life.

  27. Many others were brought to the bar, not only for the crime of abhorrence, but for alleged misdemeanours still less affecting the privileges of parliament, such as remissness in searching for papists.

  28. It was found that some of his misdemeanours had been committed in Oxfordshire, and he was sent down and tried there, where the Tory feeling was not likely to let him off again.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misdemeanours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.