How To Use Misdeed In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He reeks in misdeeds, but is selected as the fit companion for the newly born as well as for the agedly virtuous.
Idle Comments
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She's been making up for her past misdeeds by doing a lot of voluntary work.
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Global Partnerships has stepped up to answer in good deeds the microfinance misdeeds which Yunus decries.
Jonathan Lewis: Nobel Peace Winner Slams Poverty Profiteering
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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.
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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
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The big established banks struggled to deal with the legacy of past misdeeds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Take some time to reflect on your past virtues and misdeeds.
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I came in 1976, when I had gotten an advance copy of a report of a House committee investigating CIA misdeeds.
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But between now and election day, we're going to hear enough about their past deeds and misdeeds to make you upchuck.
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On hearing of his misdeeds, the ‘witch’ has no trouble believing that he is indeed the cause of his tribesman's misfortunes.
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But why make a virtue out of those inevitable errors and misdeeds, much less a program?
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Western reporters detail, quite properly, the misdeeds, the crimes even, of the occupying forces.
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She insists that his misdeeds are not about race, diversity or affirmative action.
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The Soviet position followed the new position of the CPSU at its 20th Congress 1956 where Nikita Khruschev unveiled misdeeds of Stalin in his secret speech on the last day of the congress.
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He added that the low income of the force's members could not be a justification for the officers to commit misdeeds.
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The prosecution is determined to discover the corporations' misdeeds to reveal the real picture.
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Referenced early on in the episode as the website responsible for catching filmed proof of a rogue vampire's feeding frenzy a misdeed punishable by the true death, which Mayor Bill readily dispensed on the busted fanger, the Cheaters-meets-feeders clip caught our eye as something that had to be something set up for the show's devoted online fandom.
Watercooler: True Blood Goes Viral
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Her misdeeds eventually led her to be banned from practising law for seven years.
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More seriously, the lived manner in which Legionaries practice obedience is laced with the kind of unquestioning submission which allowed the cult of personality to emerge around the figure of Maciel in the first place and covered for his misdeeds.
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A "breach" of contract, "possible misappropriation," or "misdeed" - would be necessary to begin legal proceedings, but there "was not any sense of illegality at that point," he said.
06/05/2005
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The firm's obsessive focus on secrecy helps keep any misdeeds under wraps, say the sources.
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The Twentymans are a trio of hardcore armed robbers with a dozen bank jobs to their credit, currently serving time in a friendly medium-security hoosegow for their latest misdeed.
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But it is the grievance of a people who turn their own misdeeds into their own victimology, thus making rational discourse all but impossible.
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Alecto is ready to annihilate us all in a fit of rage, Tisiphone will happily punish us with death for all of our misdeeds, and Megaera wants to shred us out of jealousy.
The Three Furies
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Outraged society then demands punishment, for it is a point of principle that offenders must pay for their misdeeds.
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The implication is that business schools are aiding and abetting accounting fraud and other misdeeds by failing to teach their students not to commit crimes.
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Moreover, public misdeeds could readily be matched by private ones.
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You should not have sold the car in that unsafe condition ; sooner or later your misdeeds will come home to roost.
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On ‘Galaxy,’ his mediocre lyrics persist, but the careful melodies and highly syncopated rhythms forgive any misdeeds.
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The latter now recalled his misdeed with sorrow and shame in an impassioned plea for amnesty to all political offenders, including
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
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Only Bayard stood back from the merrymaking, to the side of the brotherly chat, watching me closelyperhaps even a little distrustfully, though perhaps the distrust I saw in his face arose from my sense of my own misdeeds, from my fear of discovery.
Virginity
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These include beating up a mob associate who made "fat jokes" about rotund Gambino soldier Thomas (Huck) Carbonaro and spray-painting the home of a Brooklyn landlord pink for another misdeed against Carbonaro - coming on to a niece who didn't appreciate his advances.
Jerry Capeci: Feds Stack the Deck Against a Junior Gambino Hoodlum
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They were reminded of past misdeeds.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the past, youthful misdeeds would eventually reach the ears of mum and dad.
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Black notes that as a result of the Great Depression and the S&L scandals, which as you will recall implicated five senators-the so-called Keating Five-laws were put in place to deal with the mistakes and misdeeds and outright frauds that periodically affect the finance sector in America.
Fraud ... Rampant, Pervasive Fraud!
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The numbers of his misdeeds are like the grains of sand on the seashore, his orgies have shamed our generation, his debauches are a disgrace upon the fame of
"Unto Caesar"
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Maxim weathered court cases that accused him of misdeeds ranging from patent infringement to trigamy.
The Gun
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What exactly is the impersonal causal connection between the misdeeds in past lives and the painful events in this life?
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Beyond this, except by the rather violent hypothesis of copyist misdeeds above referred to, [196] nobody has been able to get further in a generalisation of the metre than that the normal form is an eight and six (better a seven and seven) "fourteener," trochaically cadenced, but admitting contraction and extension with a liberality elsewhere unparalleled.
The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
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The lawless reprobate was condoned by the vices of the lawgivers: condoned, that is, for misdeeds short of murder.
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The cabler, which is planning to air "Real Housewives of D.C." in 2010, finds itself in the midst of a reality TV flap -- a familiar spot for many networks that have thrived on the genre yet have to deal with crisis management after the revelation of a reality player's criminal past, embarrassing background or misdeed.
Variety.com
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Macbeth is a schemer and plotter who is eventually undone by his own misdeeds.
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So for the ILO to endorse "jointness" in this environment is worse than merely papering over the misdeeds of thousands of supplier factories producing for the big brands.
CounterPunch
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Where is your compassion for those of us who end up paying for this kind of misdeed?
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Likewise if we do give a yobbo a thick ear for (say) dropping litter, swearing at an old lady, kicking a cat or any of the other minor but spiteful misdeeds with which they fill their unrewarding little lives, they are the first to call the police and (as Gadget has observed before) demand that the police “do [us] for assult or somefink”.
My Kingdom For A 4X4 With Suitable Tyres! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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It is also distasteful when politicians use the web to hide their misdeeds by launching questionable nationalist advocacies.
Global Voices in English » Southeast Asia: Internet and Nationalism
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If she is shamming, her body shape will give her plenty of time to either really get pregnant or to claim that she has suffered a miscarriage - probably in response to some claimed misdeed of Peter's.
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Do you think a rogue, secretive, abusive organization that regularly defies the rule of law -- hell, forget those abstract principles; how about the embarrassing political optics of an "anti-hate" agency that admits to posting hateful messages on the Internet itself -- would really go willingly into Tuesday's hearing, with the national press assembled there to record their every misdeed and malefaction?
Even the human rights tribunal is sick of the human rights commission - Ezra Levant
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The penalties for misdeeds are so great that no one is going to risk incurring them.
THE ROAD TO PARADISE ISLAND
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The pastor needs to be aware of the long-range ramifications of financial misdeeds.
Christianity Today
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Trade amnesty for perpetrators in return for them putting their misdeeds on the public record.
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If afflicted, it can indicate those who find infamy or notoriety because their misdeeds have caught the public's eye.
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The self-styled patriots should take note of the fact that their acts and misdeeds can no longer remain hidden.
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In fact, it was so -- the misdeed was a double-edged blade which cut both ways.
The Lincoln Story Book
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Tom also related that the Doctor had become a bankrupt, and the school broken up; but I was unable to hear anything further about the scene of my past misdeeds and experiences of "pandying" and "way of his own" of my former master, for while we were yet chatting together, Captain Giles came up, saying he was going off to the _Jackmal_ at once, and would like Jorrocks and myself to come on board with him, as he intended sailing that afternoon.
On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story
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The apex court had upheld his conviction, but the accused was not there to face the consequences of his misdeeds.
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The lawless reprobate was condoned by the vices of the lawgivers: condoned, that is, for misdeeds short of murder.
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Now there has been the leaked lawyers' report detailing a number of minor alleged misdeeds during the Ashes series last winter.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the person's heart was heavy with misdeeds, the Devourer would consume the victim and they would never find peace.
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Individuals, not a political party, will be called to account by the courts for misdeeds committed under the auspices of his wayward pet project.
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Both have had their misdeeds winked at, one way or another, by Uncle Sam.
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We can throw ourselves into your arms, knowing that you understand all our sins and misdeeds.
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Self-love also means forgiving yourself for any misdeeds or harmful thoughts.
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The enquiry dug deeper into the alleged financial misdeeds of his government.
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And do we have an ambivalent fascination with them--awe at their accomplishments and disgust at their misdeeds, an antonymous schadenfreude, as it were--that somehow enables us to justify our failure to achieve in the way they have?
She's the Boss
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In a small dome-like cavity, hollowed out of the roof of this passage, hung a large bell; and in a cell opening from the side of the passage immediately beneath the dome, dwelt an old nun, who, for some dreadful misdeed committed in her youth, had voluntarily consigned herself to the convent of the Carmelites, and, having passed through the ordeal of the chamber of penitence, had accepted the office of sextoness in that department of the establishment.
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
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In the end publicity about his financial misdeeds in Japan and in the foreign press undermined his standing.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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Claiming a misdeed was a mistake is akin to the evangelist philanderer saying, “I thought the woman was my wife,” or the baseball player claiming, “I thought I was injecting vitamins,” or the politician perjurer protesting, “It depends on what the definition of the truth is.”
It's not a mistake when you lie!
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Probably now that she had gone they were talking more freely-about the Nawab and his mysterious misdeeds.
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The UN, too, refuses to take him on for his criminal misdeeds.
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To hold him responsible for the misdeeds of his independent contractor would be to make him insure the safety of his lift.
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For Augustine, the murder that founded the first earthly city prefigured another misdeed, the founding of Rome.
Bloodlust
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In the past, youthful misdeeds would eventually reach the ears of mum and dad.
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I'd like to say I wrote Lost on Treasure Island because I hungered for knowledge, and the liberation that knowledge would bring, because writing about one's more desperate and despicable maneuvers helps one to see oneself with clarity; that writing honestly--or at least attempting to write honestly--about one's sleazier misdeeds and slimier general misconduct makes one less likely to engage in such misdeeds and misconduct again.
Steve Friedman: Reasons not to Write a Memoir (but why I did any way)
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Hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes and sicknesses, which humans believe to be Nature's wrath or a manifestation of Evil, or punishment for Man's misdeeds, are in Zoroastrianism ethically neutral.
Archive 2007-05-01
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The carnie is no longer a punchline for a joke but a vanishing breed of vagabond that triggers wanderlust nostalgia, not thoughts of syphilis and criminal misdeeds.
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In fact, it was so ” the misdeed was a double-edged blade which cut both ways.
The Lincoln Story Book
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The motives are multifaceted, the responses ambiguous and everyone bears the brunt of their misdeeds, as well as their best intentions.
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Consider your hand-wringing sufficient penance for your "misdeed," but don't waste to much time worrying about how knuckleheads respond to thoughtful criticism.
Blue Skunk Blog
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Sources said the disappearance of the weapon threw the police into confusion, with some openly accusing others of misdeeds.
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Luckily all of these people are the victims of vile plots and political misdeeds.
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There Tondal repents of his misdeeds and returns to the holy candour of a life untroubled by sin (Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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These misdeeds are all too frequent in this troubled world we live in.
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You've seen variations of this lists everywhere, yet corruption has become so normal at this point that the Bush's latest misdeed, selectively and secretly "declassifying" a national intelligence estimate to provide to a single Administration-friendly reporter (aka. "leaking"), feels like more of the same.
Greg Saunders: A Hole In The Head
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People unavoidably pay a collective price for the misdeeds and wrongs of their leaders.
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If so, the organization could blunt, if not wipe out, the financial impact of the alleged misdeeds.
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Never before has a movie founded its mayhem and misdeeds on a hairline fracture in a pair of animal horns.
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She thought that she could see the dawning realization that she and George “were either the victims of the Americans, or of the Russians, or of both, or, at the most, ‘lampistes’—a term meaning literally railroad employees who swing lanterns when a train pulls out and, by extension, the lowest of the low, who are made to pay for the mistakes or misdeeds of their superiors.”
A Covert Affair
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What exactly is the impersonal causal connection between the misdeeds in past lives and the painful events in this life?
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It implies that this happened to us because of our faults, misdeeds or sins.
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He raked up the misdeeds of his predecessor
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Unfortunately for the bank, customers in Ireland have been affected by the misdeeds exposed in the past few weeks.
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Item, the said abbot hath alienate and sold the jewels and plate of the monastery, to the value of five hundred marks, _to purchase of the Bishop of Rome his bulls to be a bishop, and to annex the said abbey to his bishopric, to that intent that he should not for his misdeeds be punished, or deprived from his said abbey_.
Short Studies on Great Subjects
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During the last year, the UK media has been on trial due to valid outrage at past misdeeds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hatreds, thou alone dost fertilize the brain of man whom injustice has crushed; thou breathest into him the idea of meditated vengeance, sure misdeeds; thou incitest him to murder; thou givest him the abundant joy of accomplished reprisals and permittest him to taste the intoxicating draught of the tears of which he is the cause.
Là-bas
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A tort is a civil, that is, a noncriminal, wrong; it is any one of a miscellaneous collection of misdeeds that lay the basis for a suit for damages.
A History of American Law
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The nuns' collective acceptance of Delores' strange and almost non-existent back-story without any suspicion of misdeed demonstrates not only the sisters' uncanny trust in humankind, but also serves as a wink and a nod from the producers that this story requires a fair share of faith from the audience.
Danny Groner: Sister Act on Broadway Is Heavenly
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The misdeeds of corporate America grab headlines and generate huge media coverage.
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People who overlook the behaver of their party and it’s members, while expressing outrage at the misdeeds of another one.
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