misdoer
Example Sentences
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Saint Edmund from the horizon's edge, in shining armour, threatening the misdoer in his hour of extreme need: it is beautiful, it is great and true.
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
And though Sister Hawthorn satisfied the Church by “humble acknowledgment of her miscariag,” the bolder misdoer only made matters worse by “a frothy letter,” which left no alternative but a sentence of expulsion.
From The Life of John Bunyan by Edmund Venables
Justice in her demanded that every wrong should be righted, every misdoer punished.
From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
Grimm explains the principle of this test by tracing it to an old heathen superstition that the holy element, the pure stream, would receive no misdoer within it.
From The Customs of Old England by F. J. (Frederick John) Snell
In the case of demerit there is a direct antipathy to the feelings of the misdoer, but the chief sentiment excited is sympathy with those injured by the misdeed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
