Prosecuted

Definition of Prosecuted

To bring legal action against someone accused of a crime.

How should Prosecuted divide into syllables

The word has three syllables. The vowels are 'o', 'e', and 'u'. The consonants are 'p', 'r', 's', 'c', 't', and 'd'.

Part of Speech - Prosecuted

The district attorney prosecuted the criminal for theft.

Sentences with Prosecuted

• The police officer prosecuted the thief for stealing the car.
• The lawyer decided to prosecute the company for violating labor laws.
• The government is determined to prosecute anyone who breaks the law.
• The district attorney will prosecute the suspect for murder.
• If you break the law, you will be prosecuted.
• The victim's family wants to prosecute the killer to the fullest extent of the law.
• The prosecutor will try to prosecute the defendant for fraud.
• The state attorney general announced plans to prosecute the drug dealer.
• The judge will decide whether to prosecute the case or dismiss it.
• The police are working hard to prosecute the person responsible for the crime.

Quotes with Prosecuted

• It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. - William Blackstone
• No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. - Theodore Roosevelt
• Justice delayed is justice denied. - William E. Gladstone
• It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. - Henry David Thoreau
• The law is a ass. - Charles Dickens
• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The first duty of society is justice. - Alexander Hamilton
• Where there is no justice, there is no liberty. - Learned Hand
• The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The law cannot do everything, and there are times when it should not try. - William Howard Taft
• The only way to deal with criminals is to prosecute them. - John Gotti
• The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. - Peter Kropotkin
• The law is a complex business, and it takes a great deal of study and experience to master it. - Sandra Day O'Connor
• The law is an ass. - Charles Dickens
• The law is not justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be. - Raymond Chandler
• Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. - Benjamin Cardozo
• The law is reason, free from passion. - Aristotle
• I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln
• The law is the public conscience. - Thomas Hobbes

Number of characters in Prosecuted

10 ( p, r, o, s, e, c, u, t, e, d )

Unique letters in Prosecuted

9 ( p, r, o, s, e, c, u, t, d )

Prosecuted Backwards

detucesorp

Phonetic Transcription of Prosecuted

IPA (International): ˈprɑ:sɪˌkju:tɪd

ARA (American): ˈprɑsɪˌkjutɪd

EPA (English): ˈprɑ:sɪˌkju:tɪd

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