misdoing

English

Noun

misdoing (plural misdoings)

  1. (uncountable) Wrongdoing. [from 13th c.]
  2. (chiefly in the plural) An act of wrongdoing; a misdeed. [from 15th c.]
    • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, ’’Unworking Aristocracy’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
      Anti-Corn-Law League asks not, Do something; but, Cease your destructive misdoing, Do ye nothing!
    • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 411:
      She questioned her husband concerning the convict's misdoings […] .

Verb

misdoing

  1. present participle and gerund of misdo
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