malefactor
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əˌfæk noun
1.
a person who violates the law; criminal.
2.
a person who does harm or evil, especially toward another.
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| —n | |
| a criminal; wrongdoer | |
| [C15: via Old French from Latin, from malefacere to do evil] | |
| 'malefaction | |
| —n | |
| 'malefactress | |
| —fem n | |
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Word Origin & History
malefactor
c.1440, from L. malefactor, from malefactus, pp. of malefacere "to do evil," from male "badly" (see mal-) + facere "to perform" (see factitious).
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Example sentences
As they cannot have personal access te that malefactor, they undertake te evangelize him by means of postal caids.
The malefactor failed to pay the amounts charged to those accounts and thus the accounts became delinquent.
The birds learned to identify an aggressive researcher and ignore the others-and eventually they dive-bombed the malefactor.
Jack loves his violent ways too much to consider any other route to heaven than that of the malefactor on the cross.
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