Examples of misdeed in a Sentence
She threatened to expose to the public the misdeeds he had committed.
punished for her misdeeds by the church elders
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The former couple settled the suit for $20 million a day later, but dozens of lawsuits from other people claiming similar misdeeds soon followed.
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 28 June 2025
Power shields its misdeeds with propaganda, but Panh sees such murderous lies clearly, giving them an honest staging, thick with echoes.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
The article that cost Marley the spot on the racing commission was fairly routine, one Bolles likely wrote after combing The Republic's archives for previous stories involving Marley's misdeeds.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 1 June 2025
He is also shut out of the city’s generous public finance matching program for alleged past misdeeds.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 25 June 2025
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 28 June 2025
Power shields its misdeeds with propaganda, but Panh sees such murderous lies clearly, giving them an honest staging, thick with echoes.
—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
The article that cost Marley the spot on the racing commission was fairly routine, one Bolles likely wrote after combing The Republic's archives for previous stories involving Marley's misdeeds.
—Richard Ruelas, AZCentral.com, 1 June 2025
He is also shut out of the city’s generous public finance matching program for alleged past misdeeds.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 25 June 2025
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“Misdeed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misdeed. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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misdeed
noun
mis·deed
(ˈ)mis-ˈdēd 
: an evil or illegal deed
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