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/mˈæləfˌæktər/ /mˈælfˌæktər/ Listen

noun

Malefactor n.

An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. Opposite of benefactor. "Malefactors of great wealth."

Synonyms: Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.

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Etymology of 'Malefactor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Malefactor" Quotes from Famous Books

... over to the Dublin Corporation. The Corinthian columns which form the portico are very handsome. The entrance is modern, the older structure having given way in "the troubled times," while a crowd of citizens were beguiling the time watching a public whipping of a malefactor from the steps. The centre hall is crowned with a decorated dome. The hall contains statues of O'Connell, Under-Secretary Drummond, Grattan, and Dr. Lucas, a publicist in eighteen-century Dublin. The Council Chamber is ...

— The Sunny Side of Ireland - How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway • John O'Mahony and R. Lloyd Praeger

... playing upon the streets, and his capture was quickly effected. Seizing the innocent little fellow by the arm, the irate peasant lifted him off his feet, and dragged him by sheer force into the barn, where he confronted the malefactor with his victim. ...

— Rabbi and Priest - A Story • Milton Goldsmith

... and the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from the body, and leaves it standing in its place. A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to make a malefactor die sweetly, was only ...

— A Voyage to the Moon • George Tucker

... Vergniaud came to visit him, and brought with him his son, a child ten years of age. The features of the fair boy reminded Vergniaud of his beloved sister, and awoke mournfully in his heart the remembrance of departed joys. When the child saw his uncle imprisoned like a malefactor, his cheeks haggard and sunken, his matted hair straggling over his forehead, his long beard disfiguring his face, and his clothes hanging in tatters, he clung to his father, affrighted by the sad ...

— Madame Roland, Makers of History • John S. C. Abbott

... aren't parallel: you're not a notorious malefactor, wanted by the police of every capital in Europe, hounded by rivals to boot—fighting for life, liberty and"—he ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

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