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
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
He led the people to a green; made them form a ring; then stept into the midst of them, set the faithful sieve a-running, and so failed not to discover the misdoer.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
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
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
