How to Use malefactor in a Sentence

malefactor

noun

• With open arms and open checkbooks, all of these malefactors were welcomed.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2019
• How nice, the malefactors of great wealth are giving their workers a little tip.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2017
• And yet, these malefactors are not nearly as dangerous as the first film’s Bergens.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2020
• On Halloween night in 1939, all were riding the elevator to the top floor when a malefactor's evil curse zapped them into the spirit world.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2021
• The religious police patrolled the streets looking for purported malefactors and were given a more or less free hand to do so.
  — Peter Bergen, CNN, 21 May 2017
• Bridges was a zealous vamp from the get-go; Tomasson a prowling, barefaced malefactor; Bouley a restless shark, gliding between wily poses.
  — Matthew Guerrieri, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2020
• Chasing malefactors is how Melanie tries to outrun her past, but the job only bridges the distance, until she is forced to confront her own brokenness.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• The attacker can essentially trick the AI into doing the bidding of the malefactor.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• If malefactors in high places are dealt with firmly and impartially, that will deter others and signal to investors that the rule of law still applies in South Africa.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• But Calvin pulls a knife on Lombardo, who starts throwing the (6-foot-4) malefactor around, an improbable feat.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 22 July 2021
• Get our daily newsletter And every malefactor needed to fear the interest of the DA’s office.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• And the reason he's so resolved is that for decades, China has been the principal malefactor trying to use free trade aspiration most of the rest of the world has, to pursue mercantilist goals.
  — Fox News, 5 Aug. 2018
• As a result, 10 malefactors were wounded and brought to a hospital for treatment but were declared dead upon arrival.
  — Felipe Villamor and Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2016
• Attacks may be timed to do maximum damage to a brand and provide maximum benefit to a malefactor.
  — Matthew F. Ferraro For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 10 June 2019
• The referees had an off night, even forgetting which malefactor player had how many technical fouls.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 10 June 2017
• For many, this means hoping God’s justice finally rains down on a serial malefactor.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
• Theodore Roosevelt, the first great Republican Progressive, fought a Presidential campaign on the issue of ‘trust busting’ and talked freely about malefactors of great wealth.
  — Robert D. Atkinson, The New Republic, 4 May 2018
• The social-networking giant faces the prospect that malicious actors in the United States and abroad could try to undermine the process in the same way that Russian malefactors seized on the 2016 presidential election to sow social unrest online.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• Oh, that look of withering disdain, those narrow eyes narrowed that much more, as some malefactor offered some halting answer to one of Wallace’s handing-up-an-indictment question.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
• Today, that doesn’t matter, since anti-gunners are now organized by the best professional organizers that money can buy, thanks to Michael Bloomberg and other malefactors of great wealth.
  — David B. Kopel, National Review, 16 Aug. 2019
• And the principle remains that representing a malefactor isn’t, ipso facto, an act of malefaction.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• Here the principle of justice, which demands that malefactors receive a punishment proportionate to their offense, and deterrence of this deeper sort meet.
  — Joseph M. Bessette, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
• The malefactors in Congress are also enduring, indeed growing.
  — Robert Schlesinger, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
• Where once conspiracy theorists looked to Russia as the enemy, they were suddenly left without a malefactor.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• The malware could then infect their company's network and potentially allow malefactors entry into the network to steal information, or do who knows what else.
  — Tim Bajarin, Time, 7 Aug. 2017
• And thus, malefactor entities might be adversarially held responsible via some form of due process.
  — WIRED, 6 July 2023
• Trying to expand their activities and increase profits, malefactors started to target cloud services.
  — David Balaban, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• But the job keeps getting harder as more offenders and malefactors use more and increasingly sophisticated AI technologies.
  — Ned Potter, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• Certainly that isn’t how Japanese prosecutors handled the malefactors at Toshiba or Olympus, two firms marred by accounting scandals.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2018
• Sure, politician-novelists usually throw in a murder or a kidnapping or two, but in the end their novels always seem to come down to the good government bureaucrat prevailing against the malefactor whose ultimate aim is to subvert American democracy.
  — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 10 June 2021

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024