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  • noun Plural form of evildoing.

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Examples

  • Accidental deaths result from their bumbling evildoings.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010

  • In Isaiah 1 and 3, the prophet implied that Sodom was destroyed for a bunch of evildoings and a failure to do good; seek justice, correct oppression … But there was no reference even hinting at homosexuality.

    The God Box Alex Sanchez 2007

  • I'm going to the store immediately to buy another iPhone, so that I can fasten it between my legs in an attempt to thwart any evildoings.

    Another reason to ban the Xbox 360 2007

  • In Isaiah 1 and 3, the prophet implied that Sodom was destroyed for a bunch of evildoings and a failure to do good; seek justice, correct oppression … But there was no reference even hinting at homosexuality.

    The God Box Alex Sanchez 2007

  • Let me just quote my mother, what she used to say when we expressed outrage at a sibling's evildoings: "You're only encouraging him."

    Archive 2006-06-01 Ann Althouse 2006

  • But I forgive the quiz for those evildoings since it also intentionally or not points out the sexism of the average movie in a funny way.

    February 3rd, 2005 snidegrrl 2005

  • The other times, all I got from the police was a lecture on my evildoings and a stern warning.

    Mexico Readies Crackdown on Bribery 2003

  • Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evildoings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

    Zechariah 1. 1999

  • Even the gangsters and dictators must have excelled at their evildoings to generate such worldwide notoriety.

    The Pathfinder Nicholas Lore 1998

  • Men have got up terrific lectures from them, authors have quoted from them whenever they desired an authority to prove that which they wished themselves and their readers to believe of trumped-up stories of Napoleon's despotism and evildoings.

    The Tragedy of St. Helena Walter Runciman 1892

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