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.

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