Word Finder - misdeeds

definition

That which was done that should not have been, ranging from any sin or moral offense to various degrees of crime.

example

The petty misdeeds of his youth came back to haunt him when he ran for political office and his character was smeared.

It would be wrong to suppose that Lenin drew profits from the misdeeds of his associates.

When he confessed his misdeeds to Lily, she kicked him out.

Under such a system, and the legal protection enjoyed through it by Ottoman functionaries against evil consequences of their own misdeeds, corruption was rife throughout the empire.

Of course there is in most cases the alternative of a fine, the non-payment of which entails the imprisonment; yet a penalty imposed on the pocket is so clearly the proper retribution for such misdeeds that better methods should be devised for the collection of fines.

The only power a professional body has over those who commit misdeeds is to remove them from the register.

Annoying persons are nothing other than the agents of one's own previous misdeeds.

The suit, filed late on Monday, provides a fairly detailed and lengthy laundry list of alleged misdeeds by Intel.

Her past misdeeds are regularly referred to, yet how often are we reminded of Juliet's unpleasant behavior during her first term.

In fact, BAT is reaping the whirlwind sown by its own corporate misdeeds.

This gives them immunity under national law, and from liability for criminal proceedings for abuse of their powers and any other misdeeds.

However, blaming globalization for the consequences diverts attention from such criminal misdeeds and also misdirects analysis of their underlying causes.

We are told that ' because of our misdeeds, this monster brought a great pestilence ' .

The beginning of his rule inherited a war with France and Holland; the former consequent on Cromwell's failure to obtain terms for the Huguenots or the cession of Dunkirk, and the latter - for which he was not responsible - the result of commercial rivalry, of disputes concerning the rights of neutrals, of bitter memories of Dutch misdeeds in the East Indies, and of dynastic causes arising from the stadtholder, William II.

When Victor confronts Mary Jane (aka Patty) for all her misdeeds, she shoots him and leaves him on his deathbed.

Simeon of Durham makes his death occur about the same time, after he had been expelled from his country and had lost his reason as a punishment for his misdeeds.

The liberum veto seems to have been originally devised to cut short interminable debates in times of acute crisis, but it was generally used either by highly placed criminals, anxious to avoid an inquiry into their misdeeds,' or by malcontents, desirous of embarrassing the executive.

The fine of a murderer could free themselves from liability by giving up the murderer and his goods, or if he escaped, by giving up any goods he had left, depriving him of clanship, and lodging a pledge against his future misdeeds.

Thereupon the popular rulers avenged these misdeeds by many summary executions in the piazza.

The data relating to his whole history are scanty and obscure, and his memory has suffered materially from the fact that the chief chroniclers of his deeds and misdeeds were ecclesiastics.

Then in 1579 the council decided to arrest Claud and his brother John (afterwards 1st marquess of Hamilton) and to punish them for their past misdeeds; but the brothers escaped to England, where Elizabeth used them as pawns in the diplomatic game, and later Claud lived for a short time in France.

For many of his misdeeds his terrible son Cesare was responsible, but of others the pope cannot be acquitted.

The criticism freely directed against him was based rather upon the circumstances of his unfortunate private life and the misdeeds of an unscrupulous entourage which traded upon his name than upon his personal or political shortcomings.

The discovery of Anne's misdeeds coincided in an extraordinary manner with Henry's disappointment in not obtaining by her a male heir, while the king's despotic power and the universal unpopularity of Anne both tended to hinder the administration of pure justice.