Citations:misdemean


 * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 4, chapter I, Aristocracies
 * Gurth born thrall of Cedric, it is like; got cuffs as often as pork-parings, if he misdemeaned himself; but Gurth did belong to Cedric: no human creature then went about connected with nobody; left to go his ways into Bastilles or worse, under Laissez-faire; […]