wrongdoer
wrongdoer noun: someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.
Noun
wrongdoer (plural wrongdoers)
- Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.
- Get and keep wrongdoers out of your thorp (village).
- Where the owner of the property and several insurers have rights of action for different portions of the value, all arising out of the same wrongful act, they may join in a single action against the wrongdoër.1880, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, volume XLIX, Chicago: Callaghan & Company, page 748
wrongdoer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
wrongdoer in Hindi
- someone who does wrong
- पापी pāpī, विधर्मी vidharmī, अधर्मी adharmī, दुराचारी durācārī
wrongdoer in Tamil
- தீங்காளி, தீங்கிழப்பவர்
wrongdoer in Marathi
- someone who does wrong
- चुकीचे काम करणारी व्यक्ती cukīce kām karṇārī vyaktī
wrongdoer in Urdu
- غلطی کرنے والا, گناہگار
More languagesFewer languages
- wrongdoer in Malayalam
- അപരാധി aparādhi, തെറ്റുകാരൻ teṟṟukāraṉ
- wrongdoer in Kannada
- ಅಪಕಾರಿ, ತಪ್ಪುಮಾಡುವ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ
- wrongdoer in Arabic
- أثِيم, آثِم ʔāṯim, مُرتَكِب, مُذنِب
Examples of wrongdoer in a sentence
- With all due respect to Aaron, every era seems to have had its legion of wrongdoers and shortcutters who used whatever science was available to get an edge.2009 July 31, William C. Rhoden, “Baseball Players’ Silence Led to Loud Drip of Names”, in The New York Times, archived from the original...
- Usually it takes him too long going down the stairs from the roof to catch any misdeeder or wrongdoer, but tonight will be different.2012, Wred Fright, Blog Love Omega Glee, page 275:
Forms of wrongdoer
| plural | wrongdoers |
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Origin of wrongdoer
From wrong + doer.
Questions about wrongdoer
- What does wrongdoer mean?
- Wrongdoer means someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.
- What is wrongdoer in Hindi?
- Wrongdoer in Hindi is पापी (pāpī), विधर्मी (vidharmī), अधर्मी (adharmī). See Wrongdoer meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use wrongdoer in a sentence?
- With all due respect to Aaron, every era seems to have had its legion of wrongdoers and shortcutters who used whatever science was available to get an edge.
- What part of speech is wrongdoer?
- Wrongdoer is a noun.
- What is the plural of wrongdoer?
- The plural of wrongdoer is wrongdoers.
Words near wrongdoer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wrongdoer (page history and authors); wrongdoer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wrongdoer (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wrongdoer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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