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- noun Plural form of
malefactor .
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Examples
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Teddy Roosevelt: He was America's Number-One crusader against business monopolies held by what he called the malefactors of great wealth.
The Rule of Reason 2010
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More seriously, the approach of using fusion intelligence to attempt to identify malefactors is clearly a good approach, even though we know the government will do it poorly.
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Somebody was obviously searching hard for an excuse to make sure that certain malefactors’ last years are indeed “golden” ones.
Retirement Policy 2009
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Somebody was obviously searching hard for an excuse to make sure that certain malefactors’ last years are indeed “golden” ones.
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Somebody was obviously searching hard for an excuse to make sure that certain malefactors’ last years are indeed “golden” ones.
Stromata Blog: 2007
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I do not ask this to minimize the threat from malefactors, which is certainly real enough. 9/11 bears stark witness to that.
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I do not ask this to minimize the threat from malefactors, which is certainly real enough. 9/11 bears stark witness to that.
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In the outer court, for instance, were a hundred men called malefactors, for the most part Jews convicted of various political offences.
Pearl-Maiden Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Not, of course, for today's Republicans, who instinctively side with those Theodore Roosevelt-dubbed "malefactors of great wealth."
NYT > Home Page By PAUL KRUGMAN 2011
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Not, of course, for today's Republicans, who instinctively side with those Theodore Roosevelt-dubbed "malefactors of great wealth."
NYT > Home Page By PAUL KRUGMAN 2011
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