WRONG-DOER

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wrongdoer \Wrong"do`er\, n.
     1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
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     2. (Law) One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a
        tort feasor. --Ayliffe.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wrongdoer
       n : a person who transgresses moral or civil law [syn: {offender}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "wrongdoer":
     bad person, criminal, crook, culprit, deceiver, delinquent,
     evil man, evil person, evildoer, felon, gangster, lawbreaker,
     malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, misdemeanant,
     misdemeanist, misfeasor, mobster, offender, outlaw, public enemy,
     racketeer, sinner, thief, transgressor, villain, worker of ill
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  WRONG-DOER. One who commits an injury, a tort-feasor. (q.v.) Vide Dane's 
  Abridgment, Index, h.t.