wrongdoer

noun

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

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

   “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.”

   “With all due respect to Aaron, every era seems to have had its legion of wrongdoers and shortcutters who used whatever science was available to get an edge.”

   “Usually it takes him too long going down the stairs from the roof to catch any misdeeder or wrongdoer, but tonight will be different.”

   “From Tadros’s perspective — the perspective of classical utilitarianism — there is nothing objectionable about this moral lobotomy whereby a wrongdoer pops a moral anesthetic pill immediately after committing whatever atrocity one could imagine in order to avoid suffering — provided, that is, that she would “understand” the wrongness of her actions.”