misdoing
English
Noun
misdoing (plural misdoings)
- An act of misdoing; 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):
- […] our Governing Class […] have not yet learned even to sit still, and do no mischief! For no Anti-Corn-Law League yet asks more of them than this; — Nature and Fact, very imperatively, asking so much more of them. Anti-Corn-Law League asks not, Do something; but, Cease your destructive misdoing, Do ye nothing!
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