WRONGDOER, WRONG-DOING
ADJECTIVES
► FAULTY that has committed a fault, error, or offense; guilty of wrong-doing → 1300 obs.
► MALEFICENT of persons, their acts and dispositions: wrong-doing, criminal → 1760
NOUNS
► MALFEASANCE wrongdoing; an instance of this → 1856
► OFFENSION hurt, injury, damage; displeasure, annoyance; what is offensive or causes disgust; wrong-doing, misdeed; fault → 1374 obs.
► SKATE an act of letting someone escape wrongdoing without punishment → 1992 US sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ACTOR a malefactor; a wrongdoer → 1623 obs.
► MAINTAINER one who aids and abets in wrongdoing or error → 1330 obs.
VERBS
► AIRT to encourage or incite to mischief or wrongdoing → 1824 Sc.
► SLING A DEAF ‘UN to pretend to be deaf or at least not to hear the last statement; hence to deliberately ignore any form of wrongdoing → 1920 sl.