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

He’s full-throatedly defending his partner, famed computational designer Neri Oxman, from reports that she committed the very misdeed Ackman disparaged Gay for: plagiarism in her academic work.

From Slate • Jan. 10, 2024

When their children were young, Ann Bowden would ask her husband to discipline them for some misdeed committed while he was gone.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2021

Facebook’s on-again-off-again flirtation with video isn’t the only misdeed the social media company has been blamed for.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2019

No more teachers were denounced directly, but two or three were made to stand up in assembly and apologize for this or that misdeed.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman