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[mis-deed] / mɪsˈdid /


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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

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

Satire is generally incurious of motive, unconcerned about the conditions that produced whatever distortion of personality, misdeed or excess it targets for opprobrium.

From New York Times • May 13, 2022

“They can unite their whole readership behind saying how terrible this person is or that misdeed was, whereas if you’re debating party policy, it’s a 50-50 thing.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2021

Both the old artist and the former beauty had long forgotten his misdeed.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord




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