0 an action that is slightly bad or breaks a rule but is not a crime: --
1 in the US, a crime that is less serious and has a less severe punishment than a felony (= a serious crime such as killing someone, stealing large amounts of money, etc.): --
Violations of the fishing regulations may be considered a felony or misdemeanor, depending on the severity of the offense.
2 an action that is slightly bad or breaks a rule, but is not a crime: --
The mayor should stand or fall subject to the law, and the law is pretty tight in relation to local government misdemeanours.
We can assess our bookies and do something about controlling their misdemeanours.
He swept into his net, intentionally or otherwise, the then leaders of the so-called loyalist paramilitary bodies, most of them for comparatively minor misdemeanours.
I should think there may be other misdemeanours.
In this instance there is no reason for labelling the unfortunate people as criminals when what they commit are, at the worst, misdemeanours.
A number of licences are held in the names of wives because of the misdemeanours of the husbands.
We survived before 1967 without the penalty of disqualification for misdemeanours, however long the sentence might have been.
Here we have eight men who may have been guilty of all sorts of misdemeanours, but what has happened?
