malefactor

How To Use malefactor In A Sentence

• She must have been a terrible malefactor indeed if her crimes are in proportion to her penalty.
• When he had once opposed Themistocles in some measures that were expedient, and had got the better of him, he could not refrain from saying, when he left the assembly, that unless they sent Themistocles and himself to the barathrum, (a pit into which the dead bodies of malefactors were thrown) there could be no safety for Athens. The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
• In the same manner (says Blackstone,) by the Irish brehon law, in case of murder, the brehon or judge, compounded between the murderer and the friends of the deceased, who prosecuted him, by causing the malefactor to give unto them, or to the child or wife of him that was slain, a recompense, which they called _eriach_. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832
• Even the junior senator from North Carolina felt obliged to express her scorn for these malefactors of great wealth.
• Jeremiah's power to reverse the sentence God had passed upon Zedekiah, but it was in Zedekiah's power to reverse the sentence which the princes had given against him; and therefore, since he thought him fit to be used as a prophet, he would not think him fit to be abused as the worst of malefactors. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• Grange lived on its own solid substance, defying malefactory Radical tricksters. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
• As he was going to the place of execution, he still looked graver and mote concerned; though he did not fall into those agonies of sighing and tears as some do, but seemed to bear his miserable state with great composedness and resignation, saying he had repented as well as he could in the short time allowed him, suffering the same day with the two last mentioned malefactors. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• Their selection by the mass-circulation magazine reflects the readiness of society to see corporate malefactors punished.
• The principles with which he had been seasoned in his youth served to render him more tractable and civilized when under his last misfortunes, unto which he fell with the two afore-mentioned malefactors; they being all indicted for assaulting one Mr. Francis Williams on the highway, and taking from him a silver watch value three pounds, two guineas and a moidore, [79] on the 28th of February, 1728. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
• Similarly, public execution by hanging was not unheard of, constituting an efficient means of ridding ‘the colony of malefactors.’