misdoing

noun — 2 senses

misdoing

noun
1

Wrongdoing.

2

In plural An act of wrongdoing; a misdeed.

  • Anti-Corn-Law League asks not, Do something; but, Cease your destructive misdoing, Do ye nothing!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, ’’Unworking Aristocracy’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
  • She questioned her husband concerning the convict's misdoings […].1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 411:

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