misdoing

Wrongdoing.

Noun

Wrongdoing.
Synonyms: baseness degeneracy wickedness corruption defilement degradation depravation depravedness depravity impurity iniquity lewdity malignity misdoing misguilt obliquity peccability perversion pollution pravity sin sinfulness turpitude vitiation
An act of wrongdoing; a misdeed.
- Anti-Corn-Law League asks not, Do something; but, Cease your destructive misdoing, Do ye nothing! - 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, ’’Unworking Aristocracy’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston,...
- She questioned her husband concerning the convict's misdoings […]. - 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 411:
Synonyms: misdemeanor transgression wrong crime delict delinquency error malfeasance misdeed misdoing offense peccadillo sin tort tortfeasance veniality wrongdoing