The petty misdeeds of his youth came back to haunt him when he ran for political office and his character was smeared.
Source: wiktionary
Misdeed
//mɪsˈdiːd//
Synonyms for "misdeed" (75 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (37)
Noun(13 words)
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6 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 27 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- злодеяние noun (something wrong done)
Catalan
1 entries- pecat noun (something wrong done)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 犯罪 noun (something wrong done)
- 罪行 noun (something wrong done)
Danish
3 entries- misgerning noun (something wrong done)
- udåd noun (something wrong done)
- ugerning noun (something wrong done)
Dutch
3 entries- misdaad noun (something wrong done)
- vergrijp noun (something wrong done)
- wandaad noun (something wrong done)
Finnish
1 entries- tekonen noun (something wrong done)
French
1 entries- méfait noun (something wrong done)
Galician
3 entries- falcatruada noun (something wrong done)
- falcatrúa noun (something wrong done)
- trasnada noun (something wrong done)
German
1 entries- Missetat noun (something wrong done)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌰𐌳𐌴𐌸𐍃 noun (something wrong done)
Greek
1 entries- παράπτωμα noun (something wrong done)
Hindi
3 entries- कुकर्म noun (something wrong done)
- दुराचार noun (something wrong done)
- दुष्कर्म noun (something wrong done)
Hungarian
2 entries- gaztett noun (something wrong done)
- gonosztett noun (something wrong done)
Irish
1 entries- drochghníomh noun (something wrong done)
Italian
2 entries- crimine noun (something wrong done)
- misfatto noun (something wrong done)
Japanese
2 entries- 悪事 noun (something wrong done)
- 犯罪 noun (something wrong done)
Khmer
1 entries- ទោស noun (something wrong done)
Manx
1 entries- drogh-yannoo noun (something wrong done)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- misgjerning noun (something wrong done)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- misgjerning noun (something wrong done)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صوچ noun (something wrong done)
Polish
1 entries- występek noun (something wrong done)
Portuguese
1 entries- malfeitoria noun (something wrong done)
Romanian
2 entries- fărădelege noun (something wrong done)
- nelegiuire noun (something wrong done)
Russian
4 entries- опло́шность noun (something wrong done)
- правонаруше́ние noun (something wrong done)
- преступле́ние noun (something wrong done)
- просту́пок noun (something wrong done)
Spanish
3 entries- fechoría noun (something wrong done)
- malfecho (disused) noun (something wrong done)
- malhecho noun (something wrong done)
Swedish
4 entries- illdåd noun (something wrong done)
- illgärning noun (something wrong done)
- missdåd noun (something wrong done)
- missgärning noun (something wrong done)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
These [putting feet on seats and leaving rubbish behind] are officially among the worst habits revealed by staff working on Northern's trains and at stations. Other bugbears include playing music through loudspeakers, not giving way to passengers getting off the train and actually illegal activities such as fare evasion and vaping in enclosed spaces. The list of misdeeds was released by the operator on March 3 to coincide with Employee Appreciation Day.
Source: wiktionary
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