malefactor
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He’s an honest policeman who describes himself as a “functionnaire,” a civil servant, and whose belief in justice might sometimes lead him to letting a malefactor escape.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025
Milton's benchmark for when a book becomes a "malefactor" is a little unclear.
From Salon • Jun. 27, 2020
Bridges was a zealous vamp from the get-go; Tomasson a prowling, barefaced malefactor; Bouley a restless shark, gliding between wily poses.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2020
Five years after that, Miloš Forman made a flamboyant film out of Shaffer’s material, with F. Murray Abraham playing Salieri as a suave, pursed-lipped malefactor.
From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019
Thereupon I surrendered myself to the officer, who, to my supreme annoyance, insisted on handcuffing me like a common malefactor.
From In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas by Boothby, Guy Newell
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