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Example sentences for "misdoings"

Lexicographically close words:
misdemeanours; misdirect; misdirected; misdirection; misdoing; misdoot; misdoubt; misdoubted; misdoubting; misdoubts
  1. His misdoings are far more definitely recorded in the Prophets, who furnish us with details which are passed over by the historians.

  2. And, to judge from the promptness with which they fell upon the good things provided for them, that afternoon’s misdoings had certainly not blunted the mis-doers’ appetites.

  3. For the first time, perhaps, in their lives, Fay and Phoena realised how much elder folk may suffer for the misdoings of the young, and how unselfishly they may conceal that suffering from its authors.

  4. La Fontaine had not a conscience entirely pure, and, accordingly, strove to hide his misdoings under cover of works perfectly irreproachable.

  5. And she was right; for never yet Have any a misfortune met, But Fortune's blamed: she has to pay For our misdoings every day.

  6. Man provided the only discordant note; but for the jarring of his misdoings there would have been perfect peace.

  7. It is also a fact, that men generally suffer through the misdoings of their fellow-men.

  8. We may ourselves have caused their misdoings by some unconscious error of our own.

  9. The children of drunkards, thieves, profligates, all suffer through the misdoings of their parents.

  10. Churches are made up of men, and men are full of imperfections, so that misunderstandings, and even misdoings at times, are inevitable.

  11. I saw the misdoings of the parties in power, and looked no further, and I heaped on them the bitterest invectives.

  12. This time a member of the Senate came forward and claimed to prosecute Verres for misdoings in the province of Achaia in Greece.

  13. We may hope at least that the repentance which he expresses for his misdoings in a letter to Tiro, his father's freedman, was genuine.

  14. The cat's misdoings interrupt her, and her needle is lost.

  15. A great many of the humorous poems written against the church were republished at the time of the Reformation to show that for centuries the misdoings of the clergy had been a source of comment.

  16. He was driven into unconstitutional ways of raising money, which recalled all the misdoings of his predecessor.

  17. They discussed in voices still considerably husky and thick the doings and misdoings at the entertainment of the previous night.

  18. The comment on the story, in Chaucer, is put into the mouth of the host, who begs that he may be preserved from such a wife, and inveighs against the craft and misdoings of women.

  19. He laboured to throw his own misdoings upon innocent men, and justice requires that his victims should be absolved, and the discredit, augmented beyond measure by the perfidy and deceit, be laid where it is due.

  20. It is not pleasant to me to hear first of my daughter's misdoings from Lady Cumnor, and then to be lectured about her, and her flirting, and her jilting, as if I had had anything to do with it.


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