actionable vs felonious

actionable

adj
  • Affording grounds for legal action. 

  • That can be acted on; that can be used as the basis for taking action. 

  • I'm sure it's not good of me to write that he's a lush, but is it actionable? 

felonious

adj
  • Done with intent to commit a crime. 

  • The defendant must show that any bail money he hopes to post did not come from the felonious means. 

  • Of, relating to, being, or having the quality of felony 

How often have the words actionable and felonious occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )