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malefactor

/mal-uh-fak-ter/US // ˈmæl əˌfæk tər //UK // (ˈmælɪˌfæktə) //

歹徒,恶人,恶棍,歹人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who violates the law; criminal.
    • : a person who does harm or evil, especially toward another.

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Examples

  • Moreover, regulation won’t work without tight enforcement, which means criminal charges when necessary even — especially — for the most powerful malefactors of great wealth.

  • We had to stand with Ukraine to send a strong message to the malefactor Putin.

  • He was heartened, and went about the ship looking less like a malefactor doomed to execution.

  • The companion in crime of this malefactor, and his companion also at the gallows, was named Darby Mullins.

  • When this notorious malefactor was brought to trial, he was convicted on two indictments, and received sentence of death.

  • THIS malefactor appears to have suffered for a crime as savagely ferocious as it was deliberate.

  • This extraordinary malefactor suffered at Maidstone on the 6th of April, 1758.