misdemeanour

It was resolved that they had been guilty of a high crime and misdemeanour, and that they should be impeached.

But you shan't escape your misdemeanour in mauling those verses as you have done, by finding fault with my joke redevivus.

Each discovery of a misdemeanour had only been the prelude to fresh and worse concealments and hardening.

Certainly twenty-two attendants on the Mass were “impanelled” for trial for their religious misdemeanour.

But the spirit of the law clearly was that no misdemeanour should be punished more severely than the most atrocious felonies.