Dictionary

wrongdoer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From wrong + doer.

Meanings

1. Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.
   • Where the owner of the property and several insurers have rights of action for different portions of the value, all arising out of the same wrongful act, they may join in a single action against the wrongdoër. 1880, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, volume XLIX, Chicago: Callaghan & Company, page 748:
   • From Tadros’s perspective — the perspective of classical utilitarianism — there is nothing objectionable about this moral lobotomy whereby a wrongdoer pops a moral anesthetic pill immediately after committing whatever atrocity one could imagine in order to avoid suffering — provided, that is, that she would “understand” the wrongness of her actions. 2018 March 14, Leo Zaibert, Rethinking Punishment, Cambridge University Press, page 74:
   • Get and keep wrongdoers out of your thorp (village).
   • With all due respect to Aaron, every era seems to have had its legion of wrongdoers and shortcutters who used whatever science was available to get an edge. 2009 July 31, William C. Rhoden, “Baseball Players’ Silence Led to Loud Drip of Names”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
   • Usually it takes him too long going down the stairs from the roof to catch any misdeeder or wrongdoer, but tonight will be different. 2012, Wred Fright, Blog Love Omega Glee, page 275:

Forms

Translations (45)

ar آثِم (someone who does wrong) · it malvivente (someone who does wrong) · ar جانِي (someone who does wrong) · it delinquente (someone who does wrong) · pl złoczyńca (someone who does wrong) · de Zuwiderhandelnde (someone who does wrong) · hi पापी (someone who does wrong) · pt malfeitor (someone who does wrong) · ru злоумы́шленница (someone who does wrong) · hi दुराचारी (someone who does wrong) · de Übeltäter (someone who does wrong) · mr चुकीचे काम करणारी व्यक्ती (someone who does wrong) · oc malfactor (someone who does wrong) · cmn 為非作歹者 /为非作歹者 (someone who does wrong) · ar مُذنِب (someone who does wrong) · de Zuwiderhandelnder (someone who does wrong) · de Sündiger (someone who does wrong) · fi väärintekijä (someone who does wrong) · gl malfeitor (someone who does wrong) · ru злоумы́шленник (someone who does wrong) · unm mahchilësit (someone who does wrong) · sq keqbërës (someone who does wrong) · es malhechor (someone who does wrong) · ar أثِيم (someone who does wrong) · fi pahantekijä (someone who does wrong) · mfe malfeter (someone who does wrong) · hy չարագործ (someone who does wrong) · ar مُرتَكِب (someone who does wrong) · es malfechor (disused) (someone who does wrong) · it trasgressore (someone who does wrong) · hi विधर्मी (someone who does wrong) · de Abweichler (someone who does wrong) · it malintenzionato (someone who does wrong) · it malfattore (someone who does wrong) · la malefactor (someone who does wrong) · ml അപരാധി (someone who does wrong) · nrf malfaiteux (someone who does wrong) · de Gesetzesbrecher (someone who does wrong) · fr malfaiteur (someone who does wrong) · ml തെറ്റുകാരൻ (someone who does wrong) · eo malbonfaranto (someone who does wrong) · hu gonosztevő (someone who does wrong) · cmn 作惡者 /作恶者 (someone who does wrong) · ca malfactor (someone who does wrong) · hi अधर्मी (someone who does wrong)