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English
Noun
misdoing (plural misdoings)
- (uncountable) Wrongdoing.
- (chiefly in the plural) An act of wrongdoing; a misdeed.
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
- present participle and gerund of misdo