It is unjust and useless, people say, to be punished for misdeeds that are forgotten.
Thus gasping here on ground I lie, for nothing I do care; A just reward for my misdeeds my death doth plain declare.
A just reward for his misdeeds The God above hath wrought; For certainly the life he led Was to be counted nought.
No doubt the present generation of Roumanian landowners deeply deplore the misdeeds of their ancestors, who drove the ancestors of these peasants away from Roumania.
Gurth Egerton always kept a mental box of salve handy for a smarting conscience, and, when any of his misdeeds troubled him, he had always a scheme ready which would put everything right without doing himself any harm.
The misdeeds of individual soldiers are difficult to verify.
You appear to think that it is in order for Germany to visit upon unoffending Belgians reprisal for the misdeeds (as far as such misdeeds may be in evidence) committed by Russians in East Prussia.
He therefore prays and humbles himself before them, asking that his misdeeds may be forgotten, and that he may be separated from his sins, by which he feels himself to be bound and fettered.
To punish mankind for sins and misdeeds committed, other means were to be employed that did not involve the destruction of the whole human race.
Let my sins be separated, and let my misdeeds be forgotten-- Let the ban be loosened, let the fetter fall.
As the centuries passed, misdeeds multiplied and with them the infliction of the extreme penalty of the law.
A prominent personage, leader and king, was Salvatore Crescenzo, who first entered the Vicaria in 1849, where he continued his violent misdeeds by wounding one fellow prisoner and killing another.
Under no circumstances should they be allowed to expiate their misdeeds by a manufactured penalty, to subscribe to a charity, or to compensate the victims.
You will never get a high morality from people who conceive that their misdeeds are revocable and pardonable, or in a society where absolution and expiation are officially provided for us all.
Some of Val's wildest misdeeds could have been traced to that green poplin.
He saw the period fast approaching when all his wealth would drop from his body, and his misdeeds cling to his soul.
If I corroborated this yarn they would agree not to mention my own misdeeds to the commandant at Psamatia.
The priest stood, silent and bowed coldly, as if to imply that my misdeeds were exactly what one would expect from a friend of Masaryk.
The three inquisitors, Padilla, Zurita and Mexia, were suspended for three years and were then sent to repeat their misdeeds elsewhere and the two former were in addition fined ten ducats apiece.
When inside they were called one by one before the inquisitors while a statement of their misdeeds was read.
Further, by command of the lord the King, the woods of the said David had been cut down for the construction of a safe highway for travellers, as the result of the misdeeds of robbers.
The conviction was general that on account of such misdeeds the land had cast out its former inhabitants, and that it would not retain the Israelites if they indulged in similar crimes.
There was where Claris was shrewder than her husband; she made herself safe by confessing her misdeeds to him, and cajoling him into marrying her in spite of them.
No one with this principle well-grounded in him will ever seek to throw the blame of his misdeeds upon another.
Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee: and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
This slave is regarded by the chief as his second self, and he enjoys practical impunity for any misdeeds he may commit.
Perhaps, too, the Norman lords thought that by devoting a portion of their wealth to the service of God they could win salvation for their souls and atone for the shortcomings and misdeeds of their stormy lives.
It may be active enough to check misdeeds which will cause great suffering; and yet not be active enough to check misdeeds which will cause but slight annoyance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misdeeds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
