involuntary manslaughter
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
6
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Reckless killing of a human being without malice aforethought and intention.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Ruth was prosecuted for involuntary manslaughter after she hit Tony with a car."
- "In 2003, Christopher Below was in an interrogation room at the Evansville Police Department when he admitted to Detective Scott Thomas of the Evansville Police Department that he had shot Kathern Fetzer in his apartment and disposed of the body in a commercial trash bin. Her remains were never recovered, and Below pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter."