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Pronunciation: [mˈe͡ɪlfaktəz] (IPA)

Malefactors are individuals who commit illegal or criminal acts. Synonyms for malefactors include wrongdoers, lawbreakers, culprits, offenders, criminals, felons, and delinquents. These are all terms that refer to individuals who violate the law or engage in unethical, immoral, or malicious behavior. Other synonyms for malefactors may include miscreants, villains, rogues, scoundrels, and malevolent persons. The use of these synonyms may vary depending on the context in which they are used. However, all of these terms suggest that the individual in question has acted in a manner that is harmful to others and in violation of accepted norms or laws.
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Many other malefactors have attempted it, I understand, in the past, but I never heard of any of them meeting with conspicuous success.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
Are we treacherous, because we meet malefactors, and fight them with their own weapons?
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
Morrow, who had brought so many malefactors to justice by the winning snare of his personality, felt for once at a loss as to how to commence his questioning.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

Famous quotes with Malefactors

  • If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
    Thomas Aquinas
  • There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.
    James Branch Cabell
  • Jesus Christ was born in a stable; He was obliged to fly into Egypt; thirty years of His life were spent in a workshop; He suffered hunger, thirst, and weariness; He was poor, despised, and miserable; He taught the doctrines of heaven, and no one would listen. The great and the wise persecuted and took Him, subjected Him to frightful torments, treated Him as a slave, and put Him to death between two malefactors, having preferred to give liberty to a robber, rather than to suffer Him to escape. Such was the life which our Lord chose; while we are horrified at any kind of humiliation, and cannot bear the slightest appearance of contempt.
    François Fénelon

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