misdoing

plural misdoings

1. uncountableWrongdoing.First known use 13th c.

   Synonyms: baseness, degeneracy, wickedness, baseness, corruption, defilement, degeneracy, degradation

2. in pluralAn act of wrongdoing; a misdeed.First known use 15th c.

   She questioned her husband concerning the convict's misdoings […].

   1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 411

   1 more example

   Anti-Corn-Law League asks not, Do something; but, Cease your destructive misdoing, Do ye nothing!

   1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. VIII, ’’Unworking Aristocracy’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker)

   Synonyms: misdemeanor, transgression, wrong, crime, delict, delinquency, error, malfeasance

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of misdo