How to Use wrongdoer in a Sentence

wrongdoer

noun
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  • The real wrongdoers, then, are the judges who force people of faith to sin.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 19 Mar. 2017
  • If nothing else, Congress has the power to call that to light, to name and shame the wrongdoers.
    — Jesse Wegman, The Mercury News, 25 May 2024
  • And while yes, if court-storming were banned this wouldn’t have happened, the onus is on the wrongdoer.
    — Dan Greene, SI.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Or the wrongdoer might decide that the attack should be tried just once.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • So King sponsored a contest to award $200 to the person who could coin the best word for boozy wrongdoers.
    — Stephanie Schorow, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2018
  • Any wrongdoer who walks into a room and sees both of them behind the gavel?
    — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Just like with government, sometimes the best way to force change is to drag the wrongdoers into the sunshine.
    — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 22 Mar. 2020
  • God’s servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The second principle is that only the person whose right has been infringed may take the wrongdoer to court.
    — Adam J. MacLeod, National Review, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The wrongdoer on Hill’s second score was either Hamilton or Williams.
    — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Obstruction of justice strikes at the core of the government's effort to find the truth and to hold wrongdoers accountable.
    — NBC News, 25 July 2019
  • Obstruction of justice strikes at the core of the government’s effort to find the truth and to hold wrongdoers accountable.
    — Emily Stewart, Vox, 24 July 2019
  • Your response is focused on what the wrongdoer’s behavior means for you.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Like flowers turning toward the sun, the victims center wrongdoers in their lives.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Make no mistake, the wrongdoer here was Mr. Murdaugh, and the diversion of these funds occurred away from Bank of America.
    — Fox News, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Other wrongdoers have had sentences of 20 years for killing someone.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 7 June 2017
  • Our culture wants wrongdoers to suffer, even at the expense of public safety.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Normally in a shooting death, the person pulling the trigger is the primary wrongdoer.
    — NBC News, 22 Oct. 2021
  • What Uber needs to do is cut out all the wrongdoers, root and stem from the company, and settle the suit with Alphabet immediately.
    — Arjun Narayan, Fortune, 24 June 2017
  • Each wrongdoer dispatched in a fitting manner by the sparkly suited Paul!
    — Mia Galuppo, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2021
  • In the big picture, the American kakistocracy isn’t well equipped to punish an elite wrongdoer like Wells Fargo.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • The cybercrook merely plants the evil-doing elements into the cloud and then patiently waits until the OTA mechanism does the rest of the work for the wrongdoer by broadcasting it out into the fleet.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • But it is not required under the settlement itself, a major problem in the eyes of Slaughter, who said in her dissent that Google should have been legally bound to police YouTube for such wrongdoers.
    — Greg Bensinger, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • States lack the necessary safeguards to shield scientists and their work from politicization, and to hold wrongdoers accountable.
    — Jacob Carter, STAT, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Some older enforcement probes may need to be dropped, the person added, because the regulator faces a five-year statute of limitations to fine wrongdoers.
    — Kate Davidson, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
  • Far from a sympathetic portrayal of a wrongdoer, the show offers a look into a moment of comeuppance.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Dec. 2020
  • One of them was Tennessee, where the governor insisted that tighter firearms laws would never deter wrongdoers.
    — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Critics hunting for scalps of wrongdoers who sparked the mortgage industry collapse of a decade ago won’t be satisfied with the resolution.
    — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2019
  • Moore suggested that change is possible as long as there are repercussions for wrongdoers, but Goldberg had a different take on the matter.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, latimes.com, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The thinking is simple: If would-be criminals know that just about anyone can turn around and use up to lethal force when under threat, these wrongdoers are going to be less likely to carry out criminal acts.
    — German Lopez, Vox, 13 Aug. 2018

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