How to Use misdeed in a Sentence

misdeed

noun

• She threatened to expose to the public the misdeeds he had committed.
• In the grand scheme of things, none of these misdeeds matter.
  — Oliver Bateman, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• The greatest scoundrels are the holy men, who take their vows to hide some misdeed.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• Nielsen, who once struggled to pay her bills, got a 6 1/2-year prison sentence for her misdeeds.
  — Time, 2 Mar. 2020
• These men attended the same galas and employed the same lawyers to cover up their misdeeds.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 18 Oct. 2019
• Nixon suffers a brief spasm of conscience and seems to be on the verge of a true reckoning with the price paid by others for his misdeeds.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
• But Halperin has yet to undertake any sort of atonement for his misdeeds.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 19 Aug. 2019
• But soon Julian was in hot water again, this time with the feds, for oil misdeeds in Oklahoma.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• In a world of high crimes and misdemeanors, the misdeeds of yore can seem positively quaint.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 15 Nov. 2019
• Life Behind Bars Nielsen, who once struggled to pay her bills, got a 6 1/2-year prison sentence for her misdeeds.
  — Morten Buttler, Bloomberg.com, 18 Feb. 2020
• But now he is being held accountable for one of his misdeeds.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
• There’s something worse, though, than finding humor in the true wretchedness of Trump’s misdeeds.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Then in May, Little opened up about his other misdeeds in exchange for a prison transfer.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
• People are ashamed of their misdeeds, and this constitutes suffering, which makes up for the bad deeds.
  — Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
• Scam victims could be called innocent to the misdeeds of the net, but being deemed gullible is the more disparaging and stubborn charge.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper's Magazine, 15 June 2022
• In the past, obituary pirates have been punished for their misdeeds.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• At two and a half hours, the road trip was barely long enough to regale my family with tales of McCulloch misdeeds.
  — Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Sep. 2023
• The show also provides more depth to Beth, who has since remarried and refuses to shoulder the blame for any of Dan’s misdeeds.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• In the movie, Emily starts scamming people as a way to pay off student loans, and her misdeeds escalate.
  — Emilia Petrarca, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
• Their sinister goal is to take a kind-hearted person down the path of deception with their clever misdeeds.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2023
• Right Now Following the flap, Demna offered penance for his misdeeds.
  — Nathan Taylor Pemberton, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2024
• The proof lies in countless movies, books, TV shows, podcasts, plays and even operas built around the minor-to-horrific misdeeds of real-life crooks.
  — Christine Dolen, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• There will be a reckoning about these years, and the various misdeeds and crimes committed.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
• As often happens when someone spends awhile in the spotlight, the internet has resurfaced one of Cuarón's past misdeeds.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 22 Feb. 2019
• Inside a box atop a table in the Orioles’ clubhouse, the little slips of paper hold the charges of each misdeed, awaiting judgement from the court — the Kangaroo Court.
  — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 29 May 2022
• Boone stopped short of blaming opponents’ misdeeds for those early exits, though, saying the blame still lay with the Yankees.
  — James Wagner, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
• Criteo has now changed its partner contracts and filled gaps in its privacy policy, but CNIL still levied a hefty fine owing to the scale of its past misdeeds.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 22 June 2023
• Crime didn’t pay for this YouTuber, but collectors might be able to benefit from the consequences of his misdeeds.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 2 Oct. 2023
• The tech business has had its share of mishaps and misdeeds over the years, and the concentration of power in certain digital markets is a cause for concern.
  — Bloomberg View, Twin Cities, 7 June 2019
• In part, that’s because the playwright has made the monologue shared by Gina (Duncan), whose atypical misdeed as a kid got her sent to prison, so compelling.
  — Christine Dolen, sun-sentinel.com, 15 July 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024