malefactor

Example Sentences

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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

Having said that, the casting of Colin Firth, as the leading malefactor, is fiendishly smart, for which of us would not entrust our pennies to him?

From The New Yorker • Dec. 14, 2018

In more developed societies, however, all ghosts alike are held to be so; and if a ghost walks it is because its body has not been properly interred or because its owner was a malefactor.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various