malefaction
Example Sentences
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Mr. Morris: There are these forces of malefaction, and then there’s one scene that I wanted to ask you about, where you make your argument for why Kennedy is a good man.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2011
The civilized and resourceful Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn is on duty here, spying out malefaction at something called the Rod and Gun Club, a secretive woodsy preserve for male members of the Eastern ruling class.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is an age Of traders and of tricksters; all the high And hounded malefactors of great wealth Differ from the masses, in their wealth, indeed; But in their malefaction, not at all.
From Mr. Faust by Arthur Davison Ficke
His preferred field of malefaction is the country that is most nearly anarchical.
From The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 by S. O. (Silas Orrin) Howes
"But it's against rule, sir; ye have committed nae malefaction."
From Guy Mannering by Sir Walter Scott
