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Definition of malefactor in English: malefactornoun ˈmalɪˌfaktəˈmæləˌfæktər formal A person who commits a crime or some other wrong. 〈正式〉罪犯；坏人，作恶者 Example sentencesExamples - I have heard stories of her riding on a green horse and righting wrongs caused by malefactors, but I have never seen her.
- Ahead of us lie the supposedly reliable computerized ID systems that can identify malefactors with long-range cameras.
- During New York's fiscal crisis of the 1970s, he thundered from the pulpit against Wall Street's malefactors of great wealth.
- Good policing and tough sentencing have pushed New York to a tipping point, deterring some potential malefactors from crime.
- In any case, the operation - holding the malefactors of the old regime accountable for their acts - does seem to be becoming a family affair.
- What does it have to do with the fact that the malefactors cannot be prosecuted for car theft?
- This raises important legal, policy, and ethical questions about a government's use of the internet to track domestic and international malefactors.
- She must have been a terrible malefactor indeed if her crimes are in proportion to her penalty.
- It might be allowed that involuntary tests, including race, may be used to identify perpetrators of known acts, but not merely potential malefactors.
- First, it was admitted in court that West's name was only included on the list of malefactors to ‘even things out‘.
- First, the malefactors would be swiftly put out of their misery and not forced, at huge expense from the taxpayer; to live on for countless years with their inner demons and tormented souls.
- And occasionally this desire to inflict hurt on malefactors extends beyond the government and almost as far as criminals.
- But more recently, he has been shocked that women in sports are, as he puts it, ‘holding their own’ as malefactors in the athletic realm.
- His prayers, if for the souls of the malefactors, may remain private; they cannot be publicly understood.
- Their selection by the mass-circulation magazine reflects the readiness of society to see corporate malefactors punished.
- The secret to securing your credit card information from any malefactors is to give them nothing to steal.
- Some even worry that malefactors will go a step further, and begin hijacking address space that's already in active use.
- Besides identifying malefactors, grand jurors were to discern problems of public order.
- Similarly, public execution by hanging was not unheard of, constituting an efficient means of ridding ‘the colony of malefactors.’
- The cure for crime is locking up malefactors and doing so with equal and impartial enthusiasm regardless of skin colour.
Synonyms criminal, culprit, wrongdoer, offender, villain, lawbreaker, felon, evil-doer, convict, delinquent, sinner, transgressor, outlaw, black hat scoundrel, wretch, reprobate, rogue, rascal informal crook, baddy Australian informal crim Law malfeasant, misfeasor archaic miscreant, trespasser
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin, from malefact- 'done wrong', from the verb malefacere, from male 'ill' + facere 'do'. Definition of malefactor in US English: malefactornounˈmaləˌfaktərˈmæləˌfæktər formal A person who commits a crime or some other wrong. 〈正式〉罪犯；坏人，作恶者 Example sentencesExamples - During New York's fiscal crisis of the 1970s, he thundered from the pulpit against Wall Street's malefactors of great wealth.
- First, the malefactors would be swiftly put out of their misery and not forced, at huge expense from the taxpayer; to live on for countless years with their inner demons and tormented souls.
- What does it have to do with the fact that the malefactors cannot be prosecuted for car theft?
- It might be allowed that involuntary tests, including race, may be used to identify perpetrators of known acts, but not merely potential malefactors.
- But more recently, he has been shocked that women in sports are, as he puts it, ‘holding their own’ as malefactors in the athletic realm.
- This raises important legal, policy, and ethical questions about a government's use of the internet to track domestic and international malefactors.
- Good policing and tough sentencing have pushed New York to a tipping point, deterring some potential malefactors from crime.
- His prayers, if for the souls of the malefactors, may remain private; they cannot be publicly understood.
- First, it was admitted in court that West's name was only included on the list of malefactors to ‘even things out‘.
- The cure for crime is locking up malefactors and doing so with equal and impartial enthusiasm regardless of skin colour.
- Similarly, public execution by hanging was not unheard of, constituting an efficient means of ridding ‘the colony of malefactors.’
- And occasionally this desire to inflict hurt on malefactors extends beyond the government and almost as far as criminals.
- She must have been a terrible malefactor indeed if her crimes are in proportion to her penalty.
- The secret to securing your credit card information from any malefactors is to give them nothing to steal.
- Ahead of us lie the supposedly reliable computerized ID systems that can identify malefactors with long-range cameras.
- Besides identifying malefactors, grand jurors were to discern problems of public order.
- Some even worry that malefactors will go a step further, and begin hijacking address space that's already in active use.
- Their selection by the mass-circulation magazine reflects the readiness of society to see corporate malefactors punished.
- In any case, the operation - holding the malefactors of the old regime accountable for their acts - does seem to be becoming a family affair.
- I have heard stories of her riding on a green horse and righting wrongs caused by malefactors, but I have never seen her.
Synonyms criminal, culprit, wrongdoer, offender, villain, lawbreaker, felon, evil-doer, convict, delinquent, sinner, transgressor, outlaw, black hat
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin, from malefact- ‘done wrong’, from the verb malefacere, from male ‘ill’ + facere ‘do’. |