wrongdoer

English

Etymology

From wrong +‎ doer.

Noun

wrongdoer (plural wrongdoers)

1. Someone who does wrong, whether morally, ethically, or in contravention of a law.

   Get and keep wrongdoers out of your thorp (village).

   • 1880, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, volume XLIX, Chicago: Callaghan & Company, page 748:

     Where the owner of the property and several insurers have rights of action for different portions of the value, all arising out of the same wrongful act, they may join in a single action against the wrongdoër.

Translations

someone who does wrong

• Albanian: keqbërës (sq) m
• Arabic: أثِيم m, آثِم (ar) m (ʔāṯim), مُرتَكِب m, مُذنِب (ar) m, جانِي m (jānī)
• Armenian: չարագործ (hy) (čʻaragorc)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: malfactor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: malbonfaranto
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: väärintekijä, pahantekijä
• French: malfaiteur (fr) m
• Galician: malfeitor (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Übeltäter (de) m, Zuwiderhandelnder m, Zuwiderhandelnde f, Sündiger m, Gesetzesbrecher (de) m, Abweichler (de) m (dissenter)
• Hungarian: gonosztevő (hu)
• Italian: malintenzionato (it), malfattore (it), trasgressore (it), delinquente (it), malvivente (it)
• Latin: malefactor m
• Malayalam: അപരാധി (ml) (aparādhi), തെറ്റുകാരൻ (ml) m (teṟṟukāraṉ)
• Marathi: चुकीचे काम करणारी व्यक्ती m (cukīce kām karṇārī vyaktī)
• Norman: malfaiteux m
• Occitan: malfactor m
• Polish: złoczyńca (pl) m
• Portuguese: malfeitor (pt) m
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: злоумы́шленник (ru) m (zloumýšlennik), злоумы́шленница (ru) f (zloumýšlennica)
• Spanish: malhechor (es) m