misdoer

Example Sentences

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He had been known to spend years in the hunt for a single misdoer and Vic had no care to wander out where he might be seen.

From The Seventh Man by Brand, Max

Justice in her demanded that every wrong should be righted, every misdoer punished.

From The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Would that every misdoer among the provincial governors had thus been followed up by the law!

From The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic by Gilman, Arthur

He led the people to a green; made them form a ring; then stept into the midst of them, set the faithful sieve a-running, and so failed not to discover the misdoer.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

You have seen how they treat a misdoer there in the jail; now you see how they treat the innocent and the worthy.

From The Mysterious Stranger by Twain, Mark