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

Official wrist-slaps and “wet smooches” delivered to corporate leaders by federal regulators and prosecutors are the rule, no matter how egregious the misdeed — even when it’s as bad as the Wells Fargo customer fraud.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024

Over the next few months, I evaluated four other clients with a very similar picture: young queer adults torturing themselves with obsessional thinking about a sexuality-related misdeed from their remote past.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2022

I scanned my memory for every possible misdeed.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2022

No more teachers were denounced directly, but two or three were made to stand up in assembly and apologize for this or that misdeed.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman