What's the difference between wrongdoer and wrongdoing?

Wrongdoer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who injures another, or who does wrong.
  • (n.) One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor.

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) Calling on Israel to “break with its lamentable track record” and hold wrongdoers responsible, the hard-hitting report commissioned by the UN human rights council lays most of the blame for Israel’s suspected violations at the feet of the country’s political and military leadership.
  • (3) At the time when he should be campaigning for his allies, he has to sit in the position of the wrongdoer and defend himself."
  • (4) Most 4-year-olds judged a wrongdoer to experience positive emotions, focusing their justifications on the successful outcome of his action, whereas almost all 8-year-olds attributed negative feelings, focusing on the moral value of the wrongdoer's action.
  • (5) Like many of those who have been vilified, he seems to consider himself more wronged than wrongdoer; a victim of a dysfunctional system.
  • (6) International law was being flouted on a global scale and the international community was failing to prosecute wrongdoers, Ban said.
  • (7) He believes Coulson was right to allow his reporters to invade privacy in order to nail wrongdoers: "Investigative journalism is a noble profession but we have to do ignoble things."
  • (8) We will follow the facts wherever they go and we will determine whether to bring criminal charges against any companies or individual wrongdoers.” It is unusual for US authorities to seek a criminal prosecution of companies or executives, with prosecutors tending to accept an admittance of guilt, an apology from the chief executive and multimillion-dollar fines.
  • (9) It has subpoena power – excellent for commandeering embarrassing financial documents – and just enough resources and publicity power to really strike fear into Wall Street wrongdoers.
  • (10) It’s now a relic of a more violent age, a time when wrongdoers were whipped, put in the stocks or transported to distant countries for penal servitude.
  • (11) The bulk of NCP cases these days involve mediation with companies that are linked to adverse impacts through business relationships, rather than in which they are alleged to be wrongdoers themselves.
  • (12) This, together with the recent arrest of a billionaire Brazilian banker , is enough to tell the world that the rule of law operates in Brazil and wrongdoers will be apprehended.
  • (13) 4- and 5-year-olds attributed positive emotions to a wrongdoer even if his transgression was severe and if he did not gain any material profit from it.
  • (14) He said at the time: "Wrongdoers turned a good newsroom bad and this was not fully understood or adequately pursued.
  • (15) Under this, police can grant powers to civilians involved in crowd control so they can issue fines for offences such as littering, and can require suspected wrongdoers to give their name and address.
  • (16) A “serpent” and a “wrongdoer who would be condemned for a thousand generations” are among the kinder epithets hurled by mainland propagandists.
  • (17) Single-handedly, she turned the dull-sounding public accounts committee into the most rigorous scrutineer, excoriating wrongdoers and backsliders.
  • (18) What if your crime – if it can be called that – is to be born the son, grandson or great-grandson many times removed from those wrongdoers, their acts echoing in your blood and in your name?
  • (19) In a pinch, if niceness failed, he could presumably instil order on set by fixing the wrongdoers with an unsmiling stare.
  • (20) UK must do more to defeat Isis in Syria and Iraq, says May Read more “When they say that these are wronged Muslims getting revenge on their western wrongdoers, let’s remind them: from Kosovo to Somalia, countries like Britain have stepped in to save Muslim people from massacres.

Wrongdoing


Definition:

  • (n.) Evil or wicked behavior or action.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
  • (2) On the one hand, putting past wrongdoing behind it helps a company to move on.
  • (3) The FSA, which was going to be given oversight of hedge funds, will instead be able to demand cooperation from them and from other financial firms it does not regulation during investigations into wrongdoing.
  • (4) Those wrongdoings taint a whole industry beyond the handful of people and that makes it a huge problem."
  • (5) Sarkozy, who lost his immunity from prosecution when he failed to secure a second term in office in May, has denied any wrongdoing.
  • (6) Yentob was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing in October 2004, following an investigation by then BBC chief operating office John Smith.
  • (7) FBI director: new Hillary Clinton emails show no criminal wrongdoing Read more “Here in Minnesota, you’ve seen first-hand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with very large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval,” the Republican nominee told a rally in the solidly Democratic state, two days before the presidential election.
  • (8) the charge, saying that the Bank simply had "no evidence of wrongdoing" in 2008.
  • (9) Brandis said nothing in the bill would stop Asio whistleblowers from reporting suspected wrongdoing to the inspector general of intelligence and security.
  • (10) • Crone and the former NoW editor Colin Myler "misled the committee by answering questions falsely about their knowledge of evidence that other News of the World employees had been involved in phone-hacking and other wrongdoing".
  • (11) There are allegations of very, very serious dereliction of duty and of wrongdoing by people in the police at the time who were investigating – it is alleged – some of the most grotesque crimes imaginable.” According to Newsnight, the officers involved said they did not know the senior figure who threatened them.
  • (12) To have a blanket rule of pre-notification really concerns me in terms of the crucial importance for journalists to go out there and investigate wrongdoing," he said.
  • (13) The standards committee report by a cross-party group of MPs said it "deplored" stings but would "not hesitate to act in such cases if wrongdoing had occurred".
  • (14) The Senate’s economic references committee accused Asic of missing or ignoring persistent signs of wrongdoing , characterising it as a “timid, hesitant regulator” that was too ready to uncritically accept assurances of a large institution that there were no grounds for intervention.
  • (15) We encourage people to speak up if they have concerns" #gsk July 24, 2013 12.29pm BST Witty says this investigation is "quite different" to the whistleblower claims the company recently investigated and found no evidence of wrongdoing.
  • (16) He told the chair, Alexis Jay: “We will never be able to undo the wrongdoing to these children.
  • (17) As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it’s become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we’re glad they’re being held accountable.
  • (18) After international pressure, Sri Lanka conducted its own review of the war that essentially cleared government forces of wrongdoing although it did highlight evidence of possible military abuses that warranted further investigation.
  • (19) Hastie has been cleared of any wrongdoing in that incident by the ADF.
  • (20) Moreover, the state-controlled Chinese media have in a series of broadcasts denounced a number of detained “suspects” as members of a crime syndicate engaging in “rights-defence-style troublemaking”, and paraded some of those detained “confessing” to wrongdoing before they have even been publicly indicted.

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