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Definition
someone who does bad things
- And they shackled him hand and foot and would take of him ne bail ne mainprise but preferred a charge against him for he was a malefactor.Episode 12 — Cyclops (59% in)
- Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king.Episode 17 — Ithaca (87% in)
There are no more uses of "malefactor" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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