Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word ill-doers.

Examples

  • And earlier authors, as well, with their descriptions of the pitiless justice of these times, meted out to all ill-doers, regardless of age or circumstance.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • To throw potential ill-doers off their tracks, you could even publish information that isn't entirely true.

    Is Hiding Your Social Security Number Worth It? 2009

  • Maybe when one of the more nefarious ill-doers of a few years ago is called upon by a great newspaper to justify Wall Street practices (sincerely) on its pages, you have to wonder if anyone is watching the store.

    Jeff Madrick: A Christmas Gift from America to Wall Street 2008

  • What I know is that persons of this kind and all others that have attained to any distinction, although they may be unpopular in their lifetime in their relations with their fellow-men and especially with their equals, leave to posterity the desire of claiming connection with them even without any ground, and are vaunted by the country to which they belonged, not as strangers or ill-doers, but as fellow-countrymen and heroes.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • And yet, as I think, poor Babhru deserved rather to be forgiven altogether, or even to be actually rewarded, rather than punished by the body of a camel, for treating those two ill-doers even better than they merited, for such outrageous crime.

    Bubbles of the Foam Unknown

  • And they tell me there's a quiet, steady look in it that ill-doers downright quail before.

    T. Tembarom 1913

  • The text is mutilated here, but it can be gathered that Ea-bani described the land where ill-doers were punished, where the young were like the old, where the worm devoured, and dust covered all.

    Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

  • Sometimes, he slept all day, sometimes he slept all night; some days he went to rest at noon, to awake at midnight; and, on such occasions, he often wandered about the palace alone, pouncing upon ill-doers, like the lion which seeketh whom it may devour.

    In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula Hugh Charles Clifford 1903

  • Indians, expel invaders, import settlers, punish ill-doers, levy and collect taxes -- should have, in short, dignity and power enough for any colony.

    Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903

  • 'Where are the ill-doers, the spillers of blood, that we may spill their blood and avenge

    Foes Mary Johnston 1903

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.