How to Use wrongdoer in a Sentence

wrongdoer

noun

• Or the wrongdoer might decide that the attack should be tried just once.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The real wrongdoers, then, are the judges who force people of faith to sin.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 19 Mar. 2017
• Any wrongdoer who walks into a room and sees both of them behind the gavel?
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2020
• And while yes, if court-storming were banned this wouldn’t have happened, the onus is on the wrongdoer.
  — Dan Greene, SI.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Aug. 2017
• If nothing else, Congress has the power to call that to light, to name and shame the wrongdoers.
  — Jesse Wegman, The Mercury News, 25 May 2024
• Your response is focused on what the wrongdoer’s behavior means for you.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
• Just like with government, sometimes the best way to force change is to drag the wrongdoers into the sunshine.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 22 Mar. 2020
• They’d be put atop utility poles in white steel boxes with flashing blue lights — a clear warning to would-be wrongdoers.
  — Joe Mahr, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
• Other wrongdoers have had sentences of 20 years for killing someone.
  — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 7 June 2017
• Our culture wants wrongdoers to suffer, even at the expense of public safety.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
• The second principle is that only the person whose right has been infringed may take the wrongdoer to court.
  — Adam J. MacLeod, National Review, 9 Sep. 2021
• Like flowers turning toward the sun, the victims center wrongdoers in their lives.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
• So King sponsored a contest to award $200 to the person who could coin the best word for boozy wrongdoers.
  — Stephanie Schorow, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
• Namely that an ordinary person can transform into a mighty being and take on the world’s wrongdoers.
  — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2025
• So there's a law firm in Seattle that has mounted a lot of very famous successful class action suits against large wrongdoers.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
• The wrongdoer on Hill’s second score was either Hamilton or Williams.
  — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Sep. 2022
• Patient diplomacy to compel the Taliban to turn over wrongdoers is the better choice.
  — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2022
• Normally in a shooting death, the person pulling the trigger is the primary wrongdoer.
  — NBC News, 22 Oct. 2021
• Obstruction of justice strikes at the core of the government’s effort to find the truth and to hold wrongdoers accountable.
  — Emily Stewart, Vox, 24 July 2019
• Obstruction of justice strikes at the core of the government's effort to find the truth and to hold wrongdoers accountable.
  — NBC News, 25 July 2019
• The same could be claimed in any case where a whistleblower reveals wrongdoing, knowing that this might have consequences for the wrongdoers.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Jan. 2025
• After seeing this, the wrongdoers usually rush to settle.
  — Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
• States lack the necessary safeguards to shield scientists and their work from politicization, and to hold wrongdoers accountable.
  — Jacob Carter, STAT, 10 Nov. 2023
• Far from a sympathetic portrayal of a wrongdoer, the show offers a look into a moment of comeuppance.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
• One of them was Tennessee, where the governor insisted that tighter firearms laws would never deter wrongdoers.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• And when thunderclaps rattled their chests, the Chinese felt a deity punishing wrongdoers.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
• Critics hunting for scalps of wrongdoers who sparked the mortgage industry collapse of a decade ago won’t be satisfied with the resolution.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019
• Some older enforcement probes may need to be dropped, the person added, because the regulator faces a five-year statute of limitations to fine wrongdoers.
  — Kate Davidson, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• Telling friends or relatives about the fresh face can also help, as varying perspectives can root out potential wrongdoers, according to the agency.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024