Sample sentences for MALEFACTOR

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someone who does bad things

How do we keep malefactors from abusing the system?

This almost unique malefactor received a pardon, and was conveyed to New York, where she changed her name, and soon afterwards married.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
It was put up in wuld times by the relations of a malefactor who was tortured there by nailing his hand to a post and afterwards hung.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Which be the malefactors?
William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
They were cramped like malefactors with the chain and ball.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
We might have been hauled off to the police-station as dangerous malefactors.
Agatha Christie -- Early Cases Of Hercule Poirot
He looked at Poole, and then back at the paper, and last of all at the dead malefactor stretched upon the carpet.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
The malefactor was fixed in a chair upon a scaffold erected for that purpose, and his head cut off at one blow, with a sword of about forty feet long.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels
There are a mystery and a solemn dignity in death, that dispose the living to regard the remains of even a malefactor with a certain degree of reverence.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Deerslayer
'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth Some monstrous malefactor.
William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra
If thou fail'st To find these malefactors, thou shalt own The wages of ill-gotten gains is death.
Sophocles -- Antigone
A general amnesty is proclaimed; all malefactors may return to their town.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
Well; what benefactors are they? are they not malefactors?
William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure
The poor man made a clamor over it: some malefactor had been there!
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Since the seamstress had said something to him at the same moment, he had no chance to determine who the malefactor was.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
It was like a reprieve to a dying malefactor, with a halter about his neck, and ready to be turned off.
Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
This gloomy fortress, which has for more than three hundred years furnished food for so many wild legends, seemed to Dantes like a scaffold to a malefactor.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
These words, in fact, represented to her imagination something very terrible indeed, something base and cruel, which she associated with malefactors and prisoners.
Henry James -- Washington Square
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.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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