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Recent Examples of malefactor This keeps malefactors from abusing the service to snoop on private data other than their own. PCMAG, 7 Jan. 2025 If not properly secured, OTA updates may be intercepted and altered by malefactors, risking the reliability of the entire system. Klaudia Zaika, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024 In her introductory speech, Amanpour foreshadows what’s to come, warning that malefactors with enticing narratives can only manipulate us because of our eagerness to believe them. Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2024 In 2011, ahead of his reelection campaign, Barack Obama traveled to Osawatomie, Kan., to attack the malefactors of great wealth. Matthew Continetti, National Review, 19 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for malefactor
Recent Examples of Synonyms for malefactor
Noun
  • As crypto holders become increasingly savvy online, criminals start resorting to physical attacks.
    Marie Poteriaieva, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
  • With the help of a charming and ethnically diverse array of loveable colleagues, Peralta brings down criminals in entirely bingeable 22-minute chunks.
    Maris Kreizman, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The wrongdoers of today will soon fear his particular brand of Old West Justice!
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 18 June 2025
  • The burden of your inquiry into this wrongful closure should rest squarely on the wrongdoer’s shoulders, not on those of the innocent public trying to access their beloved knoll.
    Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • Welcome to the Post-Trust Era A social media app isn’t the villain.
    Ankush Chowdhary, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • Clayface is shape-shifting villain in the Batman comics and got his introduction as part of Detective Comics #40 in June 1940.
    Justin Kroll, Deadline, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • The place where Dante cast endless sinners, upside down in hellholes of their own carving, or in the tangled forest of suicides, or with the fratricides in the ninth circle, all of them eternally condemned.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • Everybody loves a reformed sinner, and his first inquisitors, UF trustees, were prepared to grant Ono absolution.
    Ron Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2025

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“Malefactor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/malefactor. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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