How to Use misprision in a Sentence
misprision
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Tried and convicted for misprision of treason, she was locked away in her bedroom in the palace for eight months.
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Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
18 May 2026
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Sullivan had been convicted by a jury of obstruction of justice and misprision of felony.
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Heather Wishart-Smith,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of misprision of felony.
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Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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That charge — misprision of a felony — was filed in a superseding information Alvarez pleaded to, which followed the original indictment.
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Jason Meisner,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2026
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Gutierrez Rivera is charged with misprision of a felony in connection not reporting the theft of the woman’s disability benefits, prosecutors said.
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Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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