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Misdeed


Definition:

  • (n.) An evil deed; a wicked action.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only specific areas of psychiatry may be found guilty of misdeeds, but psychiatry as a whole bears an historical responsibility for the terrible events in Nazi Germany.
  • (2) If that attitude could sometimes frustrate senior editors’ desire to raise standards – if it could, in the end, be blamed for the calamitous failure to spot the misdeeds of Johann Hari – it was also the only thing that kept the paper from falling apart completely: an irresistibly romantic underdog spirit, a sense that since this plainly wasn’t a viable business, it had to be a cause.
  • (3) Halting print runs, closing down websites, silencing radio stations and blacking out TV screens are all ways of concealing misdeeds, preventing scrutiny or simply blocking alternative viewpoints.
  • (4) This may well be true, but his patrons seem more interested in songs about the very misdeeds which landed them in jail.
  • (5) There is a recommendation for a duty of candour to be placed in the NHS constitution, obliging hospitals to be "honest, open and truthful", in effect an admonishment for past misdeeds.
  • (6) Dalli, in a videoed interview with a Brussels political paper, said the investigators' report "stated there was no proof at all that I was involved in any misdeed" and that no decision of the commission had been jeopardised.
  • (7) RBS has so far set aside £5.4bn to cover the cost of past errors and misdeeds, according to its results of the first three months of 2015 .
  • (8) Again, it wasn’t an army unit that was tasked to do the misdeed; rather it was a sort of patchwork, a random collection of guys summoned to do the killings, to their surprise, against their own will and interest, and it was so clandestine that the perpetrators hid it from their most immediate commander.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Karadžić with Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladić in 1995.
  • (9) Liu was singled out as one of the disaster's primary culprits , and state media began to highlight his misdeeds and gloss over his decades of achievement.
  • (10) J'accuse, the track in question, borrows its title from Emile Zola's famous denunciation of the French government in 1898 over the infamous Dreyfus affair and places Awadi as an uncompromisingly political animal, castigating France, America, Belgium and Africa for their role in colonial and post-colonial misdeeds.
  • (11) HSBC, in comparison, has ten times the revenue and 10 times as many seven-figure earners: Watch it below, or on her site here (scroll to 2.00m in) Louise has also helped cover Justin Bieber's misdeeds for the Guardian today - Justin Bieber's late O2 appearance – he's lost at least one (adult) Belieber .
  • (12) There were two earlier inquiries into their misdeeds.
  • (13) If one demands a far-left political agenda, a public embrace of socialism and is unwilling to forgive past misdeeds like that Iraq war vote, Sanders is your guy.
  • (14) Lindqvist suggests that the British should learn from Germans in reflecting on their misdeeds.
  • (15) But it happened.” Interviewed as part of a BBC documentary to be shown later this week, Armstrong did, however, offer something that began to resemble an apology for his misdeeds, although it came with the same defence that he has offered since the end of 2012 – that his doping was a generational phenomenon.
  • (16) I think taxpayers will be horrified … I don’t know if corruption is a strong enough word for it.” The fines from the FCA go to Treasury coffers as a result of rule changes imposed by Osborne in the wake of the Libor rigging crisis two years ago to prevent the proceeds of misdeeds going to the City regulator as they had done in the past.
  • (17) Michelle's misdeed was shacking up with Steve, who weathered the worst of the ensuing shitstorm by buggering off to visit mum Liz in the Costa del Convenient.
  • (18) It has detracted from the great work which you do for our customers on a daily basis and from the major accomplishments of the past five years.” Horta-Osório has stressed the importance of maintaining high standards of behaviour to Lloyds staff, which has paid multiple fines and billions of pounds in customer compensation for past misdeeds.
  • (19) The past has begun to follow us, and all of our misdeeds remain remembered.
  • (20) Berezovsky decamped to Britain where he led a noisy campaign against Putin, accusing him of numerous misdeeds.

Misdoer


Definition:

  • (n.) A wrongdoer.

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