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Meanings of evildoing in English

Portuguese
transgressão
Catalan
transgressió

The act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle.

        transgressão
        Usage of evildoing in English
        1
        All the great reformers and martyrs were antagonistic men-enemies to falsehood and evildoing.
        Character
        2
        This is a film noir without any crime or evildoing.
        The Guardian
        3
        One by one, the paths of evildoing must be blocked.
        Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
        4
        She would have been 'good', to use your phrasing, but with the potential for evildoing.
        Sagittarius Is Bleeding
        5
        You've broken the law and now you have got to take the consequence of your evildoing.
        The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler; Or, Working for the Custom Hou...
        6
        If you would die in your bed, repent you of your evildoing, and rob no more.'
        A Book of Scoundrels
        7
        Desire nothing, and evildoing will be done away.
        The Well of Saint Clare
        8
        Let every man do as seemeth good in his own eyes, provided only that he escape conviction for evildoing.
        The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges
        9
        A fool the man who says, 'We will do evildoing in our turn, and our heart shall be comforted.
        The Well of Saint Clare
        10
        Are you telling me that one of the gifts of education is the skillful concealment of evildoing by those in positions of power?
        Down with the Cities!
        11
        Evildoing is in evil desiring.
        The Well of Saint Clare
        12
        If Bruin chose to steal Rusteviel's honey, if Hintze trespassed in the priest's granary, they were but taken in their own evildoings.
        Essays in Literature and History
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for evildoing
        Portuguese
        transgressão
        Evildoing through the time