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

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

Would that every misdoer among the provincial governors had thus been followed up by the law!

From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Gilman, Arthur

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.

From The Customs of Old England by Snell, F. J. (Frederick John)

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