Misdeem vs Misdeed - What's the difference?
misdeem | misdeed |
To misjudge, to deem wrongly.
*1500s , (Edmund Spenser), sonnet:
*:The doubt which ye misdeem , fair love, is vain, / That fondly fear to lose your liberty; /
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xxxviii:
*:Nor say I this for that I aught misdeem / That Egypt's promis'd succors fail us might.
That which was done that should not have been, ranging from any sin or moral offense to various degrees of crime.
As a verb misdeem
is to misjudge, to deem wrongly.As a noun misdeed is
that which was done that should not have been, ranging from any sin or moral offense to various degrees of crime.misdeem
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*misdeed
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(en noun)- The petty misdeeds of his youth came back to haunt him when he ran for political office and his character was smeared.