manslaughter
IPA: mˈænsɫɔtɝ
noun
- (obsolete) The slaying of a human being.
- (law) The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger; considered less culpable than murder, but more culpable than justifiable homicide.
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Examples of "manslaughter" in Sentences
- Criminally negligent manslaughter.
- Because manslaughter isn't a verb.
- Manslaughter is an indictable only offence.
- Iatrogenic manslaughter can't be eliminated.
- Corporate manslaughter and corporate homicide.
- Arrest, trial, and conviction of manslaughter.
- Alker was acquitted of murder and manslaughter.
- McCormack was cleared of murder and manslaughter.
- At worst it was voluntary manslaughter, not murder.
- Stupid id as stupid does and manslaughter is manslaughter.
- The word manslaughter and Dr. Murray have been tied together.
- If someone is charged with manslaughter then it will be manslaughter.
- The distinction between murder and manslaughter is the element of malice.
- Why would their attorneys say, you know, throw out the word manslaughter?
- That ` s the first time the word manslaughter has been used by anyone closely connected to the case.
- Regardless how severe the punishment is for manslaughter (some states have penalties as long as 40 years in such cases), the term manslaughter does not grant justice.
- The glaring thing in that search warrant saying the word manslaughter in terms of when they went to the judge and they said -- they had to get probable cause, obviously.
- He called that “the Reefer Madness argument,” referring to a 1936 propaganda film that claimed high schoolers lured into marijuana use engaged in manslaughter, suicide and rape, and descended into madness.