Misdemeanour
noun
A minor wrongdoing, less serious than a felony.
He was charged with several minor misdemeanours.
Often appears as...
- commit a misdemeanour
- misdemeanor charge
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Formal
noun
A type of behavior or action that is not serious, but considered wrong or against the rules.
Not doing your homework is seen as a misdemeanour in most schools.
Often appears as...
- school misdemeanour
- minor misdemeanour
noun
A minor wrongdoing, less serious than a felony.
He was charged with several minor misdemeanours.
Often appears as...
- commit a misdemeanour
- misdemeanor charge
Usage tips
Formal
noun
A type of behavior or action that is not serious, but considered wrong or against the rules.
Not doing your homework is seen as a misdemeanour in most schools.
Often appears as...
- school misdemeanour
- minor misdemeanour
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Pro Tip 1/3Legal Consequences
Understand that misdemeanour involves legal punishment, but it's less severe compared to felonies.
She received community service for her misdemeanour.
Pro Tip 2/3Impact on Record
A misdemeanour can still appear on a person's criminal record, affecting future opportunities.
His job application was complicated by an old misdemeanour.
Pro Tip 3/3Petty Crimes
Misdemeanours usually refer to petty crimes, such as vandalism or small thefts.
Graffiti on the wall was considered a misdemeanour.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Consequences
Understand that misdemeanour involves legal punishment, but it's less severe compared to felonies.
She received community service for her misdemeanour.
Pro Tip 2/3Impact on Record
A misdemeanour can still appear on a person's criminal record, affecting future opportunities.
His job application was complicated by an old misdemeanour.
Pro Tip 3/3Petty Crimes
Misdemeanours usually refer to petty crimes, such as vandalism or small thefts.
Graffiti on the wall was considered a misdemeanour.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Consequences
Understand that misdemeanour involves legal punishment, but it's less severe compared to felonies.
She received community service for her misdemeanour.
Pro Tip 2/3Impact on Record
A misdemeanour can still appear on a person's criminal record, affecting future opportunities.
His job application was complicated by an old misdemeanour.
Pro Tip 3/3Petty Crimes
Misdemeanours usually refer to petty crimes, such as vandalism or small thefts.
Graffiti on the wall was considered a misdemeanour.
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How does impeachment...
bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. That still leaves a lot of room for interpretation, not to mention politics, and many impeachment trials have split along partisan lines. But the process is generally understood to be reserved for serious abuses of power.
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Kavita Ramdas: Radical...
I'm indebted to them, as I am to my parents, who for some set of misdemeanors in their last life, were blessed with three daughters in this one. And for reasons equally unclear to me, seem to be inordinately proud of the three of us.
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Who occupies US prisons?...
are low-level crimes or misdemeanors and we spend each year over 75 billion that's be billion dollars on incarcerated people in state and local jails and prisons that's usually the second highest item in state budgets so
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How does impeachment...
bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. That still leaves a lot of room for interpretation, not to mention politics, and many impeachment trials have split along partisan lines. But the process is generally understood to be reserved for serious abuses of power.
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Kavita Ramdas: Radical...
I'm indebted to them, as I am to my parents, who for some set of misdemeanors in their last life, were blessed with three daughters in this one. And for reasons equally unclear to me, seem to be inordinately proud of the three of us.
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Who occupies US prisons?...
are low-level crimes or misdemeanors and we spend each year over 75 billion that's be billion dollars on incarcerated people in state and local jails and prisons that's usually the second highest item in state budgets so
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Robert Dallek
American Historian
Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a vindictive determination to bring down a president who had offended self-righteous moralists eager to put a different political agenda in place.
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George T. Conway III
American Lawyer
If a politician takes a bribe to do what he thinks would have been best for the public anyway, he still goes to jail. If he's president, under a Constitution that refers to impeachment specifically for 'bribery,' as well other 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' he should still be removed.
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Ida B. Wells
American Activist
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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Chris Grayling
British Politician
Police on the street need the discretion to deal quickly and easily with routine misdemeanours which need to be recorded but need not take up court time - and where there is no doubt about guilt.
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Hilary Farr
British Designer
I was a rebellious student, called up in assembly almost every week for some misdemeanour, lots of time on the Headmistress's office for what must have been, in retrospect, annoying behaviour.
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Samantha Harvey
English Author
Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
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Donella Meadows
American Environmentalist
There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.
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Bret Stephens
American Journalist
All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
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Paul Reubens
American Comedian
I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.
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Wesley Snipes
American Actor
I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.
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Robert Dallek
American Historian
Clinton's egregious act of self-indulgence was outdone by an impeachment based not on constitutionally required high crimes and misdemeanors but on a vindictive determination to bring down a president who had offended self-righteous moralists eager to put a different political agenda in place.
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George T. Conway III
American Lawyer
If a politician takes a bribe to do what he thinks would have been best for the public anyway, he still goes to jail. If he's president, under a Constitution that refers to impeachment specifically for 'bribery,' as well other 'high crimes and misdemeanors,' he should still be removed.
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Ida B. Wells
American Activist
In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
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Chris Grayling
British Politician
Police on the street need the discretion to deal quickly and easily with routine misdemeanours which need to be recorded but need not take up court time - and where there is no doubt about guilt.
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Hilary Farr
British Designer
I was a rebellious student, called up in assembly almost every week for some misdemeanour, lots of time on the Headmistress's office for what must have been, in retrospect, annoying behaviour.
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Samantha Harvey
English Author
Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
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Donella Meadows
American Environmentalist
There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.
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Bret Stephens
American Journalist
All societies make necessary moral distinctions between high crimes and misdemeanors, mortal and lesser sins.
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Paul Reubens
American Comedian
I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.
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Wesley Snipes
American Actor
I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.
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