How to Use misdeed in a Sentence

misdeed

noun
  • She threatened to expose to the public the misdeeds he had committed.
  • In the grand scheme of things, none of these misdeeds matter.
    Oliver Bateman, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The greatest scoundrels are the holy men, who take their vows to hide some misdeed.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
  • To hide their misdeeds, Foster rushed to the Clotilda and set it on fire.
    Michael Harriot, The Root, 23 Jan. 2018
  • There’s a lot of cleaning up of past deeds and misdeeds (and, notably, some avoidance to do the same).
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
  • As for now, the clerk has not been charged with any criminal misdeeds.
    Jared Boyd, AL.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Pearlman serves as the narrator of the 2024 doc about his misdeeds.
    Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Hunte’s is just one of dozens of tales of Lincoln’s alleged misdeeds.
    Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Some of the gun unit's misdeeds would test the credence of even the most guileless readers of crime fiction.
    Author: Timothy Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Nielsen, who once struggled to pay her bills, got a 6 1/2-year prison sentence for her misdeeds.
    Time, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Perhaps those misdeeds weren’t as bad or on the same scale as Bathum’s, but far too many people seemed to cite them.
    Hillel Aron, Los Angeles Magazine, 23 Apr. 2018
  • These men attended the same galas and employed the same lawyers to cover up their misdeeds.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
  • But the judge slashed that to $2.5 million, citing a state law that limits the cost of corporate misdeeds.
    Emery P. Dalesio, The Seattle Times, 27 May 2018
  • Nixon suffers a brief spasm of conscience and seems to be on the verge of a true reckoning with the price paid by others for his misdeeds.
    BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • But Halperin has yet to undertake any sort of atonement for his misdeeds.
    Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2019
  • But soon Julian was in hot water again, this time with the feds, for oil misdeeds in Oklahoma.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • In a world of high crimes and misdemeanors, the misdeeds of yore can seem positively quaint.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Life Behind Bars Nielsen, who once struggled to pay her bills, got a 6 1/2-year prison sentence for her misdeeds.
    Morten Buttler, Bloomberg.com, 18 Feb. 2020
  • In the latter case, the shooting may or may not be related to prior misdeeds.
    Anna North, Vox, 21 Nov. 2018
  • But now he is being held accountable for one of his misdeeds.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Jeffrey Epstein’s island is alleged to have been a secret haven for the misdeeds of the wealthy and the powerful.
    Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • When the Giants reached out, Sandoval jumped at the chance to return home, a prodigal son chastened over his misdeeds.
    Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
  • Lumping in routine router-hacking with those misdeeds seems to confuse the stakes.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2018
  • There’s something worse, though, than finding humor in the true wretchedness of Trump’s misdeeds.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The financial misdeeds that Manafort and Gates have now been accused of have nothing to do with their work for the Trump campaign.
    Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Then in May, Little opened up about his other misdeeds in exchange for a prison transfer.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
  • People are ashamed of their misdeeds, and this constitutes suffering, which makes up for the bad deeds.
    Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Scam victims could be called innocent to the misdeeds of the net, but being deemed gullible is the more disparaging and stubborn charge.
    Hannah Zeavin, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
  • Perhaps voters, rather than Congress, can be counted on to penalize presidents for their foreign policy failures or misdeeds.
    Sarah Binder, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2024
  • The series follows journalist Catherine Ravenscroft (Blanchett), who built her reputation by revealing the misdeeds and transgressions of others.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2024

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