misdoer
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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 Max Brand
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
Justice in her demanded that every wrong should be righted, every misdoer punished.
From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
But she spake at last: Meseemeth as if there is a woman in the isle besides you three; some misdoer that I was minded to punish.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
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 F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
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