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
• The emails inquiring about misdeeds were sent from April 7 to May 1.
  — Alicia A. Caldwell, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 May 2017
• 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
• His misdeeds, like those of Michael Brown, have been cited by critics as a kind of counterweight on the scales of justice.
  — Henry Grabar, New York Press Room, 1 Feb. 2017
• 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
• Often the challengers suggest a wide range of potential misdeeds, like throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what may stick.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2024
• After all, voter fraud before 2020 had rightly been treated as a miniscule misdeed and never enough to make a lick of difference in the outcome.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024