Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who misdoes or does wrong; one who commits a fault or crime; an evil-doer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A wrongdoer.
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- noun person who commits a
misdeed ,offender
Etymologies
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Examples
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Worth far more, I should say (Hippias answered), for many a man with justice and right on his lips commits injustice and wrong, but no doer of right ever was a misdoer or could possibly be.
Memorabilia 2007
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But she spake at last: Meseemeth as if there is a woman in the isle besides you three; some misdoer that I was minded to punish.
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Would that every misdoer among the provincial governors had thus been followed up by the law!
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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Grimm explains the principle of this test by tracing it to an old heathen superstition that the holy element, the pure stream, would receive no misdoer within it.
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On the contrary Mr. Coddington was a keen, direct person who came straight to a point in a few terse sentences; predominant in his character was an unflinching sense of justice which was, however, fortunately tempered with enough kindness to make a misdoer mortified but never afraid in his presence.
The Story of Leather Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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You have seen how they treat a misdoer there in the jail; now you see how they treat the innocent and the worthy.
The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. 1916
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The deer was ravaging the man's fields, and he had killed it in sudden passion, and not for gain; and he had carried it into the royal forest in the hope that that might make detection of the misdoer impossible.
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Worth far more, I should say (Hippias answered), for many a man with justice and right on his lips commits injustice and wrong, but no doer of right ever was a misdoer or could possibly be.
The Memorabilia 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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The deer was ravaging the man's fields, and he had killed it in sudden passion, and not for gain; and he had carried it into the royal forest in the hope that that might make detection of the misdoer impossible.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872
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You have seen how they treat a misdoer there in the jail; now you see how they treat the innocent and the worthy.
The Mysterious Stranger Mark Twain 1872
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