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misdoer

misdoer noun: a person who commits a misdeed; an offender.

Noun

misdoer (plural misdoers)

  1. A person who commits a misdeed; an offender.
    • Saint Edmund from the horizon’s edge, in shining armour, threatening the misdoer in his hour of extreme need: it is beautiful, it is great and true. So old, yet so modern, actual […]1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XIV, Henry of Essex”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

Forms of misdoer

pluralmisdoers

Origin of misdoer

From misdo + -er.

Questions about misdoer

What does misdoer mean?
Misdoer means a person who commits a misdeed; an offender.
What part of speech is misdoer?
Misdoer is a noun.
What is the plural of misdoer?
The plural of misdoer is misdoers.

Words near misdoer in the dictionary

  1. misdoctors
  2. misdocument
  3. misdocumented
  4. misdocumenting
  5. misdocuments
  6. misdoer
  7. misdoers
  8. misdoes
  9. misdoing
  10. misdoings
  11. misdone

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