(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.
Miscreant
Definition:
(n.) One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.
(n.) One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch.
(a.) Holding a false religious faith.
(a.) Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.
(2) The wretched miscreants that swamp Quinn, Sarkeesian and others with vile threats every time they post a video, a story or a tweet, have come to symbolise community.
(3) The theory was that cracking down on petty crimes would discourage miscreants from committing bigger ones.
(4) As for the bravado-filled email exchanges between traders, they seem on a par: Barclays' miscreants dealt in bottles of Bollinger; the taste at RBS was for steak and sushi.
(5) Corcoran grinned and cycled off, resuming the hunt for miscreants.
(6) "It seems that innocent civilians are once again are at the mercy of miscreants."
(7) Take the "human flesh search engines" – internet users who band together to track down and expose miscreants, such as abusive officials.
(8) It could simply withhold government work from any miscreant banks (or other businesses).
(9) "The technical trail is indelible – it has the fingerprints of the miscreant all over it.
(10) Miscreants stopped the bus, broke the windows and … then hurled petrol bombs,” said Karmokar, 22, who was being treated for burns to his face and hands at Dhaka medical hospital.
(11) Bluebaby: - "Can I just say that if anyone near me starts playing a vuevuezela at Stamford Bridge next season, I shall take it off them, upend it to use as a an enema funnel and administer a dose of hot Bovril to the miscreant."
(12) The move provoked a cacophony of calls for honours to be stripped from other miscreant bankers, politicians and regulators.
(13) Official rhetoric is sectarian and blames foreign and Islamist armed miscreants for the violence.
(14) They would entail inspection rights, demands for firmer data on rate-setting practices, rather than the widespread use of estimates, and powers to fine miscreants.
(15) The US actor is also expected to reprise her role as musician Dana Barrett in a forthcoming third Ghostbusters movie in which her on-screen son will battle the series' trademark spooky miscreants.
(16) In "Left Foot Forward", his "political blog for progressives", Master Straw boldly misrepresents one of the miscreant's pieces, in order to attract new signatories to the "stop Liddle" campaign and thus protect our wives and servants.
(17) He often blames developments he dislikes on the so-called “parallel state” supposedly made up of traitors, misfits and miscreants, more often than not in league with Fethullah Gülen, an exiled former ally and fellow Islamist with whom he is now involved in a long-running feud .
(18) Particularly as the parade of miscreants through US courts, and new revelations, continue.
(19) The local press blamed the fires on “miscreants” from nearby communities.
(20) While these two miscreants obviously are guilty of losing control – banged to rights on video – one or two of those who live alongside them and make a good living with them might like to ask themselves when they forgot their manners, when they strayed into the Land Of No Consequences.