Usage examples (36)

• I visited the condemned malefactors in Newgate, and was locked in by the turnkey, not with them, but in the yard.
• Now the business of a judge with a malefactor is to convict him of his crimes, and then to pass sentence upon him for them.
• A debtor is liable to process, so are we; a malefactor is a debtor to the law, so are we.
• He saw himself as the shepherd dog does; until he had rounded him up the malefactor was his private responsibility, to be protected as well as cornered.