How to Use malefactor in a Sentence

malefactor

noun

• With open arms and open checkbooks, all of these malefactors were welcomed.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2019
• How nice, the malefactors of great wealth are giving their workers a little tip.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2017
• The malefactors in Roald Dahl’s fiction are easy to spot.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
• And yet, these malefactors are not nearly as dangerous as the first film’s Bergens.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2020
• The referees had an off night, even forgetting which malefactor player had how many technical fouls.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 10 June 2017
• The stakes of the show didn’t just expand to include the malefactor’s subjectivity and despair.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2023
• For many, this means hoping God’s justice finally rains down on a serial malefactor.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
• Attacks may be timed to do maximum damage to a brand and provide maximum benefit to a malefactor.
  — Matthew F. Ferraro For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 10 June 2019
• Progressives may struggle even more with mercy toward moneyed malefactors.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• The malefactor is standing far too close, as McCall helpfully points out, and with just a nudge his pistol could be aimed at a fellow thug.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
• As a result, 10 malefactors were wounded and brought to a hospital for treatment but were declared dead upon arrival.
  — Felipe Villamor and Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2016
• Chasing malefactors is how Melanie tries to outrun her past, but the job only bridges the distance, until she is forced to confront her own brokenness.
  — Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Maybe the origin of Downey's Doom won't involve torture or an evil malefactor specifically out to ruin his life.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2024
• Electronic medical records were once touted as secure, but whole hospital systems have been taken down and held for ransom by malefactors.
  — Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 23 Nov. 2025
• To be confronted by Mike Wallace was the deepest dread of countless malefactors in public and corporate life.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 June 2026
• Thriller about a reclusive middleman for potential whistleblowers who tries to settle things with corporate malefactors.
  — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2024
• And thus, malefactor entities might be adversarially held responsible via some form of due process.
  — WIRED, 6 July 2023
• And the principle remains that representing a malefactor isn’t, ipso facto, an act of malefaction.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• The attacker can essentially trick the AI into doing the bidding of the malefactor.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The malefactors in Congress are also enduring, indeed growing.
  — Robert Schlesinger, The New Republic, 13 July 2023
• There’s a reason Miranda Priestly remains one of the Oscar-winner’s most beloved roles and a hall-of-fame malefactor.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026
• But Calvin pulls a knife on Lombardo, who starts throwing the (6-foot-4) malefactor around, an improbable feat.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 22 July 2021
• On Halloween night in 1939, all were riding the elevator to the top floor when a malefactor's evil curse zapped them into the spirit world.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2021
• If malefactors in high places are dealt with firmly and impartially, that will deter others and signal to investors that the rule of law still applies in South Africa.
  — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
• Trying to expand their activities and increase profits, malefactors started to target cloud services.
  — David Balaban, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Then, just when the situation couldn’t seem to get any worse, in the season three premiere, some mysterious malefactor sets off a car bomb at Miriam’s funeral.
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 2 June 2024
• Get our daily newsletter And every malefactor needed to fear the interest of the DA’s office.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• Where once conspiracy theorists looked to Russia as the enemy, they were suddenly left without a malefactor.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• Here the principle of justice, which demands that malefactors receive a punishment proportionate to their offense, and deterrence of this deeper sort meet.
  — Joseph M. Bessette, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
• The series is, in this specific sense, optimistic — a fantasy that accountability is coming (even if from another realm), that the bill will come due for wealthy malefactors.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023