wrongdoings

plural of wrongdoing

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Recent Examples of wrongdoings The right back owed up to his past wrongdoings. Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025 The group denies all wrongdoings. Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2024 The 10-episode limited series centers on Detective Lois Tryon (Nash) who tries to decipher who's behind a series of crimes and torments her with their wrongdoings. Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrongdoings
Noun
  • Earlier this month, Biden also commuted the sentences of 1,500 people who had been placed on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic and also pardoning 39 others convicted of nonviolent crimes.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Phishing is when bad actors attempt to obtain sensitive information to commit crimes or fraud.
    Audrey Nguyen, NPR, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • If there was one, luxury brands operating there would be complicit of economic sanctions violations, if not in the letter, at least in the spirit if most purchases were indeed brought to Russia.
    Stéphane JG Girod, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Accountability mechanisms would have to be built in to ensure violations come at a cost.
    Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Part of the pleasure of reading detective stories, and of watching them on TV, is the gratification of getting to play along—with the investigation and with the seductive idea that human misdeeds can be definitively understood.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Because their lives are unaffordable, streets unsafe, and taxes are at record highs, New York City’s residents have forgotten Cuomo’s numerous misdeeds.
    Ryan Silverstein, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025

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“Wrongdoings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrongdoings. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

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