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She threatened to expose to the public the misdeeds he had committed.
punished for her misdeeds by the church elders
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Known for his hot temper, Cohen has remained mostly calm on the witness stand despite sometimes heated interrogation by the defense about his misdeeds and the allegations in the case.
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Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, TIME, 20 May 2024
There is no way of knowing what the jury thinks of Mr. Cohen, whose past lies and misdeeds were hardly a secret — prosecutors warned the jury to expect an outsize personality with a heavy load of baggage.
—Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 20 May 2024
Drawing on American foreign policy circa 9/11 and the Iraq War, these pieces were huge collages of perfidies that Weinberger fashioned into a narrative of governmental misdeeds.
—Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
Those who actually commit misdeeds caught on video will inevitably claim that irrefutable proof of their offending acts is fake or manipulated.
—Evan Nierman, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2024
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Michael R. Sisak, Jennifer Peltz, TIME, 20 May 2024
There is no way of knowing what the jury thinks of Mr. Cohen, whose past lies and misdeeds were hardly a secret — prosecutors warned the jury to expect an outsize personality with a heavy load of baggage.
—Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 20 May 2024
Drawing on American foreign policy circa 9/11 and the Iraq War, these pieces were huge collages of perfidies that Weinberger fashioned into a narrative of governmental misdeeds.
—Wyatt Mason, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
Those who actually commit misdeeds caught on video will inevitably claim that irrefutable proof of their offending acts is fake or manipulated.
—Evan Nierman, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2024
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misdeed
noun
mis·deed
(ˈ)mis-ˈdēd 
: an evil or illegal deed
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