MISDEED in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for MISDEED, such as:

1. Sometimes the excuse is worse than the original misdeed.
2. The angry congressman wanted to impeach the president for his misdeeds.
3. When he heard of his son's misdeeds, he was seized by a paroxysm of rage.
4. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become something in the nature of a turnkey.
5. Then she would open it at the place where Jip had made it illegible last night, and call Jip up, to look at his misdeeds.

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 Meanings and Examples of MISDEED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
misdeed
 n.  evil deed; wicked action.
Classic Sentence:
1  Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  But I was in a manner stupefied by this turning up of my old misdeed and old acquaintance, and could think of nothing else.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
3  And then her rage broke, the same rage that drove Gerald to murder and other Irish ancestors to misdeeds that cost them their necks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Mammy looked at her piercingly, just as she had done when Scarlett was small and had tried unsuccessfully to palm off plausible excuses for misdeeds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
6  But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
7  Then she would open it at the place where Jip had made it illegible last night, and call Jip up, to look at his misdeeds.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING
8  In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become something in the nature of a turnkey.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER X—THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS
Example Sentence:
1  Sometimes the excuse is worse than the original misdeed.
2  When he heard of his son's misdeeds, he was seized by a paroxysm of rage.
3  The angry congressman wanted to impeach the president for his misdeeds.
4  You should not have sold the car in that unsafe condition ; sooner or later your misdeeds will come home to roost.