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Definition
someone who has does something wrong — usually something illegal
- Could they be perpetrated without being known, in a country like this, where social and literary intercourse is on such a footing, where every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies, and where roads and newspapers lay everything open?Chapter 24 (98% in)
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