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malefactor

[mal-uh-fak-ter] / ˈmæl əˌfæk tər /




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He’s an honest policeman who describes himself as a “functionnaire,” a civil servant, and whose belief in justice might sometimes lead him to letting a malefactor escape.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

Milton's benchmark for when a book becomes a "malefactor" is a little unclear.

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2020

Bridges was a zealous vamp from the get-go; Tomasson a prowling, barefaced malefactor; Bouley a restless shark, gliding between wily poses.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2020

The idea is that a malefactor could write in two digits at the end and change the date.

From Slate • Jan. 9, 2020

Thanks to my inexperience I took the narrator for the malefactor, a man with an iron character, a man to whom Petroff was nothing.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor




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