misdoer

Example Sentences

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He had been known to spend years in the hunt for a single misdoer and Vic had no care to wander out where he might be seen.

From The Seventh Man by Brand, Max

Saint Edmund from the horizon's edge, in shining armour, threatening the misdoer in his hour of extreme need: it is beautiful, it is great and true.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas

He led the people to a green; made them form a ring; then stept into the midst of them, set the faithful sieve a-running, and so failed not to discover the misdoer.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

You have seen how they treat a misdoer there in the jail; now you see how they treat the innocent and the worthy.

From The Mysterious Stranger by Twain, Mark

In the case of demerit there is a direct antipathy to the feelings of the misdoer, but the chief sentiment excited is sympathy with those injured by the misdeed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various