Thesaurus results for MANSLAUGHTER

manslaughter

noun

as in murder

law the crime of ending the life of a person without intending to do so She was convicted of manslaughter for driving while drunk and killing three people.

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Recent Examples of manslaughter The drunk Mercedes driver who killed two and injured three others on Manhattan’s Upper West Side was hit with manslaughter charges Saturday for the wild, out-of-control crash, officials said. —

Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 16 May 2026 Police arrested Suarez, charging him with two counts of manslaughter, three counts of vehicular manslaughter, two counts of vehicular assault and DWI. —

Mark Prussin, CBS News, 16 May 2026 If convicted of vessel homicide or manslaughter, Pino faces up to 15 years in prison. —

Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 15 May 2026 Longet was charged with reckless manslaughter, and her defense was paid for by ex-husband Williams. —

Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for manslaughter

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The cruel cartoon of a constantly shrewish, venal, and disloyal Mary began cementing itself in the public mind when William Herndon, Lincoln’s Springfield law partner, started lecturing about his reminiscences within months of the President’s murder.

— Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
Last week, the South Carolina Supreme Court delivered an account of how Hill’s conduct during the 2023 double-murder trial crossed ethical and constitutional lines, ultimately unraveling the state’s conviction of Murdaugh.

— Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026