MISDEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misdeed mean? 

• MISDEED (noun)
  The noun MISDEED has 1 sense:

1. improper or wicked or immoral behavior

  Familiarity information: MISDEED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISDEED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Improper or wicked or immoral behavior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

misbehavior; misbehaviour; misdeed

Hypernyms ("misdeed" is a kind of...):

actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misdeed"):

delinquency; juvenile delinquency (an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor)

devilment; devilry; deviltry; mischief; mischief-making; mischievousness; rascality; roguery; roguishness; shenanigan (reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others)

ruffianism (violent lawless behavior)

familiarity; impropriety; indecorum; liberty (an act of undue intimacy)

abnormality; irregularity (behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality)

impropriety; indecency (an indecent or improper act)

indiscretion; peccadillo (a petty misdeed)

infantilism (infantile behavior in mature persons)

 Context examples 

Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A great uproar was raised, but he was unsuspected; while Dub, an awkward blunderer who was always getting caught, was punished for Buck’s misdeed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Then she would open it at the place where Jip had made it illegible last night, and call Jip up, to look at his misdeeds.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But he had an approved tolerance for others; sometimes wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds; and in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)