What is "misdeed"

Usage examples of "misdeed".

The boy needed to be shown now, whilst the misdeed was fresh, that derision is a bad trait for a boy to develop.

Juhiza will not confess the misdeed to our guardian, and neither will I, and surely you would not tell on us.

Sherry could not quite shake the sense that he had been called up to explain some misdeed of his own.

Brabant whose wife was very ill, and he supposing that she was about to die, after many remonstrances and exhortations for the salvation of her soul, asked her pardon, and she pardoned him all his misdeeds, excepting that he had not worked her as much as he ought to have done--as will appear more plainly in the said story.

When the hour of her death drew near, she begged her husband to pardon her, and told him of the misdeeds she had committed during the years she had lived with him, and how such and such of the children belonged to a certain man, and such to another--that is to say those before-mentioned--and that after her death they would take charge of their own children.

He was much astonished to hear this news, nevertheless he pardoned her for all her misdeeds, and then she died, and he sent the children to the persons she had mentioned, who kept them.

By God, you would have been ruined and dishonoured, and your misdeeds discovered and known to all the town!

Well, her pure tears somehow cooled his hot brain, and washed his soul, and left him wondering at himself and his misdeeds this night.

I suspected him of possessing supernatural powers, at least as regards his ability to ferret out my misdeeds, I perceived him at the time to be an inwardly directed soul who felt misused by the world and whose only interests, apart from the circus, were a love of books and calligraphy.

Here he aimed the staff at the audience and tracked it from face to face, as if highlighting the misdeeds imprinted on each.

It would be the most terrible of misdeeds not to bend every effort of will in persuading you to breed soon and often, that your precious strain may be carried on to the enrichment and glory of the Confederation in coming generations.

Laughing, they ran for the protection of the screened porch, Kurt Rainer and his past misdeeds put out of mind for the moment.

John had turned off the entire staff after gaining the title- hardly surprising, for many of the old servants had carried tales of his childhood misdeeds to the earl.

She had not reacted to his confession of his misdeeds as he had expected.

But in punishment for misdeeds too vile to be told, most humans were made to forget the Tongue and were obliged to speak instead many nasty babbles.