misdo
verb (used with object)
to do badly or wrongly; botch.
misdoer
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a word derived from
misdo.
Example Sentences
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Justice in her demanded that every wrong should be righted, every misdoer punished.
From The Tangled Skein by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
He had been known to spend years in the hunt for a single misdoer and Vic had no care to wander out where he might be seen.
From The Seventh Man by Max Brand
And though Sister Hawthorn satisfied the Church by “humble acknowledgment of her miscariag,” the bolder misdoer only made matters worse by “a frothy letter,” which left no alternative but a sentence of expulsion.
From The Life of John Bunyan by Edmund Venables
But she spake at last: Meseemeth as if there is a woman in the isle besides you three; some misdoer that I was minded to punish.
From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris
In the case of demerit there is a direct antipathy to the feelings of the misdoer, but the chief sentiment excited is sympathy with those injured by the misdeed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
