malefactor

Example Sentences

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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

But if Bran is useless, he’s not the true malefactor here.

From Slate • May 20, 2019

Thanks to my inexperience I took the narrator for the malefactor, a man with an iron character, a man to whom Petroff was nothing.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor