wrongdoing

Example Sentences

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“If you try to censor information, you make the story even bigger. Wrongdoing is seldom what trips up candidates. It's always the cover-up.”

From Fox News • Oct. 15, 2020

Entitled "Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing" it is more commonly known as "the Yates Memorandum".

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2015

Wrongdoing is not to be shrugged off with easy references to human nature.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wrongdoing always brings its own punishment, and when Jo most needed hers, she got it.

From Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May

Wrongdoing is surely never so objectionable as when it is indulged in by common people and talked about in ordinary language, and the language of this play is not stage language at all.

From Ruggles of Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon