Malefactor (noun)
mal-e-fak-te
(formal) A person who commits a crime or some other wrong.
Late Middle English from Latin, from malefact- ‘done wrong’, from the verb malefacere, from male ‘ill’ + facere ‘do’.
Example sentences
“She was a terrible malefactor and the punishment matched the crimes.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
