misdeed

Example Sentences

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"Taaf suggested that I might want to offer up an apology for my life", King wrote, "but an apology assumes a crime, an offence, a misdeed".

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025

When their children were young, Ann Bowden would ask her husband to discipline them for some misdeed committed while he was gone.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2021

Facebook’s on-again-off-again flirtation with video isn’t the only misdeed the social media company has been blamed for.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2019

No casual reader of the Constitution would assume that state and federal prosecutors could take turns trying one person for the same misdeed.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2019

The exact nature of their misdeed is unimportant, as Boris and Constantin did dreadful things all day long.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood