misdoing
misdoing noun: wrongdoing. Also the present participle and gerund of misdo.
Noun
misdoing (plural misdoings)
- Wrongdoing.
- Synonyms:
- baseness, degeneracy, wickedness, corruption, defilement, degradation, depravation, depravedness, depravity, impurity
- An act of wrongdoing; a misdeed.
- Anti-Corn-Law League asks not, Do something; but, Cease your destructive misdoing, Do ye nothing!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, ’’Unworking Aristocracy’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The...
- She questioned her husband concerning the convict's misdoings […].1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 411
- Synonyms:
- misdemeanor, transgression, wrong, crime, delict, delinquency, error, malfeasance, misdeed, offense
Also used as
misdoing is also the present participle and gerund of misdo.
Synonyms of misdoing
- baseness
- degeneracy
- wickedness
- corruption
- defilement
- degradation
- depravation
- depravedness
- depravity
- impurity
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Forms of misdoing
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Questions about misdoing
- What does misdoing mean?
- Misdoing means wrongdoing.
- What part of speech is misdoing?
- Misdoing is a noun.
- What is the plural of misdoing?
- The plural of misdoing is misdoings.
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