The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misdo \Mis*do"\ (m[i^]s*d[=oo]"), v. t. [imp. Misdid; p. p. Misdone (m[i^]s*d[u^]n"); p. pr. & vb. n. Misdoing.] [AS. misd[=o]n. See Do, v.]
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To do wrongly.
Afford me place to show what recompense Towards thee I intend for what I have misdone.
--Milton. To do wrong to; to illtreat. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Misdoing \Mis*do"ing\, n. A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing.
Wiktionary
n. An act of misdoing; a misdeed. vb. (present participle of misdo English)
Usage examples of "misdoing".
I would explain how unhappily I was influenced by the errors and misdoings of my brethren, that I may make my apostacy from Christ intelligible, I have no desire to make the impression that all with whom I came in uncomfortable collision were great sinners, while I was a meek and faultless saint.
I saw the misdoings of the parties in power, and looked no further, and I heaped on them the bitterest invectives.
The children of drunkards, thieves, profligates, all suffer through the misdoings of their parents.
It is also a fact, that men generally suffer through the misdoings of their fellow-men.
We may ourselves have caused their misdoings by some unconscious error of our own.
Read in her heart, and how before the Just Her doings, her misdoings, plead.
All these boyish tricks annoyed and irritated her far more than the accounts which reached her of more serious misdoings at college and in town.
In her voice was the certainty that a Marshal-candidate would tolerate no misdoings from anyone, least of all a friend.
Now, for all your misdoings, we let you go quietly home, well fed, and with food for children, too.
Emperor that it was still the custom, at least in speaking, whatever the real belief may have been, to attribute his misdoings to bad advisers.
Read in her heart, and how before the Just Her doings, her misdoings, plead.
In her voice was the certainty that a Marshal-candidate would tolerate no misdoings from anyone, least of all a friend.
He will not even know where I am taking him, for he must not think that I have been informed of his misdoings.
But his action prevented Whitie from further misdoing, and then the two dogs pattered down, carrying the rabbit between them.
We had lived together, over the years, with the clan Timson and their misdoings, He was known to them as a decent and fair-minded cop, as disapproving of the younger, Panda-racing, evidence-mas-saging intake to the Force as they were of the lack of discretion and criminal skils which marked the younger Timsons.