Misdeed
[mɪs'diːd] or [,mɪs'did]
Definition
(n.) An evil deed; a wicked action.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Transgression, trespass, offence, delinquency, misdemeanor, fault, misdoing, crime, evil deed.
Typist: Malcolm
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DEED_and_CRIME]
Checker: Rene
Definition
n. a bad deed: fault: crime.
Inputed by Logan
Examples
- Gerald had followed in wonder, amid all the booing, not having caught her misdeed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Remember, that I am thy creature: I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- But I was in a manner stupefied by this turning up of my old misdeed and old acquaintance, and could think of nothing else. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I panted to relieve this painful heart-burning by some misdeed that should rouse him to a sense of my antipathy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I was the leader and protector of my comrades, and as I became distinguished among them, their misdeeds were usually visited upon me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Then she would open it at the place where Jip had made it illegible last night, and call Jip up, to look at his misdeeds. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- For Bulstrode shrank from a direct lie with an intensity disproportionate to the number of his more indirect misdeeds. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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