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UK
/mɪsdˈiːd/
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[ US /ˈmɪsˈdid/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪsˈdid/ ]
NOUN
- improper or wicked or immoral behavior
How To Use misdeed In A Sentence
- He bows down to other countries, and continually apologizes to other countries for America's "misdeed" such as our response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- Their misdeeds, if that's what they really were, haunted some to their graves and continue to bedevil the still living who are never allowed to forget them.
- The people of Namoris were, supposedly, descendants of the Lunarians, immortal beings, the subjects of the moon goddess Celhyst, banished to the Earth and subjected to mortality for some misdeed against their queen.
- He shows how superstitions about vampires - which are found in cultures as remote from Transylvania as China - originate not in the epic misdeeds of Vlad the Impaler, but in the behaviour of the human corpse after death.
- He reeks in misdeeds, but is selected as the fit companion for the newly born as well as for the agedly virtuous. Idle Comments
- She's been making up for her past misdeeds by doing a lot of voluntary work.
- Global Partnerships has stepped up to answer in good deeds the microfinance misdeeds which Yunus decries. Jonathan Lewis: Nobel Peace Winner Slams Poverty Profiteering
- No more hiding behind complicated accounting fantasy language, no more obfuscating the reality of what misdeeds were going down in the name of business at her company, she wanted the real, plain, unvarnished truth recounted.
- The terror he unleashed in the name of Crip was widespread, but I cannot detail his ruthlessness lest some fool try to duplicate his misdeeds. Blue Rage, Black Redemption
- The big established banks struggled to deal with the legacy of past misdeeds. Times, Sunday Times