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
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
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
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