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

Satire is generally incurious of motive, unconcerned about the conditions that produced whatever distortion of personality, misdeed or excess it targets for opprobrium.

From New York Times • May 13, 2022

I scanned my memory for every possible misdeed.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2022

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