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malefactor
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  • I was in the condition of mind to be shocked at nothing: in fact, I was as reckless as some malefactors show themselves at the foot of the gallows.†  (source)
  • I was only aware that I was suffering exactly in the same way that my mother had and that my deserts could scarcely be more fitting; no malefactor ever endured his punishment with less rancor.†  (source)
  • The first-named malefactor will be subjected to the mazzuola, the second culprit beheaded.†  (source)
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  • The officer always gave me the assurance that he was worse, and some other sick prisoners in the room, and some other prisoners who attended on them as sick nurses, (malefactors, but not incapable of kindness, God be thanked!)†  (source)
  • The poor man made a clamor over it: some malefactor had been there!†  (source)
  • No Malefaction.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • A general amnesty is proclaimed; all malefactors may return to their town.†  (source)
  • The blind specialist gets into a heated argument with the protagonist, who accuses the specialist of fraud, and is accused in turn of being the worst sort of malefactor, one who by the way is blind to what really matters.†  (source)
  • He passed up the staircase and into the corridor along the walls of which the overcoats and waterproofs hung like gibbeted malefactors, headless and dripping and shapeless.†  (source)
  • Even I who speak to you may be a malefactor of the worst description.†  (source)
  • And presently we heard Mr. Hodson's whip cracking on the shoulders of the poor little blubbering wretches, and Sir Pitt, seeing that the malefactors were in custody, drove on to the hall.†  (source)
  • They had apparently believed, moreover, that they were actually helping the malefactor.†  (source)
  • These words, in fact, represented to her imagination something very terrible indeed, something base and cruel, which she associated with malefactors and prisoners.†  (source)
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