misdeed
Example Sentences
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"Taaf suggested that I might want to offer up an apology for my life", King wrote, "but an apology assumes a crime, an offence, a misdeed".
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025
Over the next few months, I evaluated four other clients with a very similar picture: young queer adults torturing themselves with obsessional thinking about a sexuality-related misdeed from their remote past.
From Slate • Jun. 13, 2022
Corporate chieftains and politicians frequently bow deeply to the news cameras to apologize for this corporate scandal or that political misdeed.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021
“They can unite their whole readership behind saying how terrible this person is or that misdeed was, whereas if you’re debating party policy, it’s a 50-50 thing.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2021
A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck’s misdeed.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
Vocabulary lists containing misdeed
Boy: Tales of Childhood
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"Is 16 Too Young to Drive a Car?" by Robert Davis
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