misdoer
Example Sentences
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Would that every misdoer among the provincial governors had thus been followed up by the law!
From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Arthur Gilman
You have seen how they treat a misdoer there in the jail; now you see how they treat the innocent and the worthy.
From The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
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
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
