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Wrongdoer   Listen
noun
Wrongdoer  n.  
1.
One who injures another, or who does wrong.
2.
(Law) One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor.





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"Wrongdoer" Quotes from Famous Books



... some tribes the stage had been reached where it was set aside by compensation.[1742] Amongst the Brazilian tribes it was a question to be decided in each case whether retaliation should be executed against the wrongdoer only or against all his kin.[1743] The Arawaks practiced blood revenge, like nature peoples, as late as 1830. Generally the cases were those of jealousy and adultery.[1744] The Australians of Victoria kill ...
— Folkways - A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals • William Graham Sumner
... he must take Lady Betty's hand instead of mine," thought she. "But that is good breeding, I suppose. I wish there was no such thing; we are very happy without it in Shropshire." Then this poor little soul was ashamed of herself, and took herself to task. "Poor Ernest," said she, pitying the wrongdoer, like a woman, "he was not pleased to be so taken by surprise. No wonder; they are so ceremonious in London. How good of him not to be angry!" Then she sighed; her heart had received a damp. His voice seemed changed, and he did not meet her eyes with the look he wore at Willoughby. ...
— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade
... true, there would be no sin anywhere except what is called philosophical sin, that is, a breach of the dignity of man's rational nature; and the hardest thing that could be said in reprobation of a wrongdoer, would be that he had gone against himself, and against his fellow-men, by outraging reason, the common attribute of ...
— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.


Words linked to "Wrongdoer" :   cheat, offender, no-show, fancy man, barrator, cheater, war criminal, supplanter, panderer, miscreant, bad person, ganof, beguiler, truant, sinner, shyster, deceiver, shark, evildoer, gonif, maltreater, defector, principal, ganef, goniff, pimp, delinquent, reprobate, attacker, assaulter, procurer, usurper, nonattender, malfeasant, backslider, pander, assailant, deserter


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