misdoer

English

Etymology

misdo +‎ -er

Noun

misdoer (plural misdoers)

  1. A person who commits a misdeed; an offender.
    • 1843: Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XIV, Henry of Essex
      Saint Edmund from the horizon’s edge, in shining armour, threatening the misdoer in his hour of extreme need: it is beautiful, it is great and true. So old, yet so modern, actual […]

References
  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.