as in crimes
a breaking of a moral or legal code
punished for her misdeeds by the church elders
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Throughout the year, shares were sensitive to news on Wells Fargo’s progress with its past regulatory misdeeds.
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Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
Several sergeants later sued the city, saying they were being made to take the fall for the department’s misdeeds.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024
But legislators limited the scope of those investigations to conduct directly related to officials’ public duties — placing personal and political misdeeds out of bounds.
—Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2024
Even when misdeeds are uncovered at the highest levels of a state agency, the result can be little more than a slap on the wrist.
—Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2024
Think of how many times Jamie was able to blame others for his wormy misdeeds.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
Featuring Ted Danson as an adrift widower who becomes a spy investigating possible misdeeds at a San Francisco retirement home, A Man on the Inside could have played as Amour meets Grumpy Old Men, which is to say a very bad idea.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2024
Congressional Republicans previously pointed to that document's allegations of bribery as evidence of misdeeds and fought with the FBI to publicly release the document, which investigators now say contained fake allegations.
—Robert Legare, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2024
Downey plays Jacob McNeal, a prize-winning novelist grappling with his own mortality and the looming death of his career, a consequence of various misdeeds, personal and professional, not least of which is leaning on AI to write his latest novel.
—Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
Several sergeants later sued the city, saying they were being made to take the fall for the department’s misdeeds.
—Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024
But legislators limited the scope of those investigations to conduct directly related to officials’ public duties — placing personal and political misdeeds out of bounds.
—Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2024
Even when misdeeds are uncovered at the highest levels of a state agency, the result can be little more than a slap on the wrist.
—Gregory Royal Pratt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Dec. 2024
Think of how many times Jamie was able to blame others for his wormy misdeeds.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
Featuring Ted Danson as an adrift widower who becomes a spy investigating possible misdeeds at a San Francisco retirement home, A Man on the Inside could have played as Amour meets Grumpy Old Men, which is to say a very bad idea.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2024
Congressional Republicans previously pointed to that document's allegations of bribery as evidence of misdeeds and fought with the FBI to publicly release the document, which investigators now say contained fake allegations.
—Robert Legare, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2024
Downey plays Jacob McNeal, a prize-winning novelist grappling with his own mortality and the looming death of his career, a consequence of various misdeeds, personal and professional, not least of which is leaning on AI to write his latest novel.
—Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Misdeeds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misdeeds. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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