- A
wrong or
wrength (from Old
English wrang – 'crooked') is an act that is
illegal or immoral.
Legal wrongs are
usually quite clearly defined in the law...
-
personal cover-ups (covering up one's own
misdeeds) from
relational cover-ups (covering up
someone else's
misdeeds). The
expression is
usually applied to...
-
being repentant for one's
misdeeds,
atoning for
those misdeeds, and
having a
strong determination to
forsake those misdeeds (remorse, resolution, and...
- he won't be a real
Catholic if the
priest doesn't
absolve him of some
misdeed. Jacob, Sam's friend,
devises a
solution in the form of a prank, but the...
- Qin Shi Huang.
Since the
conspiracy and
downfall of Lao Ai, his ****ual
misdeeds have
become a
fixture in the
traditional moralizing discourse of intellectuals...
-
statements with the
disclosure of
financial misdeeds by
trusted executives of
corporations or governments. Such
misdeeds typically involve complex methods for...
-
although no one else
knows of his or her
misdeed; this
feeling of
guilt is
relieved by
confessing the
misdeed and
making restitution. True
guilt cultures...
- Ölvaldi,
brother of Iði and Gangr, and the
father of Skaði. His most
notable misdeed was the
kidnapping of the
goddess Iðunn,
which is
related in both the Prose...
- dharma-related term and
refers to
voluntarily accepting one's
errors and
misdeeds, confession, repentance,
means of
penance and
expiation to undo or reduce...
- irony, is a
literary device with
which ultimately virtue is
rewarded and
misdeeds are punished. In
modern literature, it is
often accompanied by an ironic...