What's the difference between calefactor and malefactor?

Calefactor


Definition:

  • (n.) A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.

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Malefactor


Definition:

  • (n.) An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.
  • (n.) One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Wednesday, Sboui appeared before an investigating judge in Kairouan who is considering the charges; they include public indecency, desecrating a cemetery and belonging to a band of malefactors seeking to damage public property.
  • (2) Its charge was to investigate, and possibly arrest, what the New China News Agency called “malicious” short sellers (which in China is not an illegal practice) – a group of malefactors said by some Chinese media outlets to include the American financier George Soros.
  • (3) Thinktank malefactors reap great sums from the aggrieved heartland or from industries looking to build a canon of falsified data, and Congress and the attendant lobbying is a helluva racket.
  • (4) malefactor is restricted to Panama and northwestern Colombia.
  • (5) The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) pioneered the first genocide trials in Africa but after almost 20 years of legal argument and an estimated bill of $1.7bn (£1bn), only a tiny proportion of the Rwandan malefactors has been brought to justice.
  • (6) Anopheles malefactor Dyar and Knab is elevated from synonymy with An.
  • (7) Maybe they appreciate a good malefactor in Oceania.
  • (8) The conidial phase of the ascomycete may very well, I believe, be the malefactor in these conditions that hitherto have defied etiological explanation.
  • (9) We need people like him to help explain why the National Security Agency – just one malefactor among an assortment of other security and law enforcement bodies here and abroad – has become at least as much a menace to our security as it is a protector.
  • (10) Rudd has said that the arsonists suspected of lighting some fires are guilty of mass murder, and the police are busy chasing down these malefactors.
  • (11) The video uses cartoons, photos and even a scene from a Mr Bean film, describing Jiang as a “malefactor” who colluded and received money from unnamed “foreign forces”.
  • (12) I had hoped Kadyrov would address the crowd, but instead he sent a couple of underlings, who recounted modern Chechnya’s founding myth: how Akhmad rescued the Chechens from westerners, terrorists, Islamists and other malefactors; how Ramzan took on his mantle, and transformed the republic into something magnificent.
  • (13) We have, however, a pictorial summary of the pertinent uncovered facts that, when added together, presents a credible, logical, and valid conclusion to support the concept that these specific bacterial spores contribute to the pathway of activity to associate them as the malefactor in carcinogenesis.
  • (14) Rudd has said the arsonists suspected of lighting some fires are guilty of mass murder, and the police are pursuing the malefactors.

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