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[ US /ˈmæɫˌfæktɝ, ˈmæɫəˌfæktɝ/ ]
[ UK /mˈe‍ɪlfæktɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

How To Use malefactor In A Sentence

  • Riversley was, that while the rest of the world ate and drank poison, the Grange lived on its own solid substance, defying malefactory Radical tricksters. The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete
  • This raises important legal, policy, and ethical questions about a government's use of the internet to track domestic and international malefactors.
  • The Lords and Commons repent, but the clergy remain impenitent, are exposed, and the malefactors brought to the scaffold.
  • But hereby we apprehend that these were not the bones of persons planet-struck or burnt with fire from heaven; no relicks of traitors to their country, self-killers, or sacrilegious malefactors; persons in old apprehension unworthy of the earth; condemned unto the Tartarus of hell, and bottomless pit of Pluto, from whence there was no redemption. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
  • What does it have to do with the fact that the malefactors cannot be prosecuted for car theft?
  • It might be allowed that involuntary tests, including race, may be used to identify perpetrators of known acts, but not merely potential malefactors.
  • The Earl of Argyle’s service, in conducting to the surrender of the insolent and wicked race and name of MacGregor, notorious common malefactors, and in the inbringing of MacGregor, with a great many of the leading men of the clan, worthily executed to death for their offences, is thankfully acknowledged by an Act of Parliament, 1607, chap. 16, and rewarded with a grant of twenty chalders of victual out of the lands of Rob Roy
  • Borkman a prominent example of the ninteenth century type of criminous speculator, in whom the vastness of view and the splendidly altruistic audacity present themselves as elements which render it exceedingly difficult to say how far the malefactor is morally responsible for his crime. Henrik Ibsen
  • The secret to securing your credit card information from any malefactors is to give them nothing to steal.
  • Ahead of us lie the supposedly reliable computerized ID systems that can identify malefactors with long-range cameras.
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