Misdoing

Full definition of misdoing

Noun

1. An act of misdoing; a misdeed.
• 1843, Thomas_Carlyle, , book 3, ch. VIII, Unworking Aristocracy… our Governing Class … have not yet learned even to sit still, and do no mischief! For no yet asks more of them than this; — Nature and Fact, very imperatively, asking so much more of them. Anti-Corn-Law League asks not, Do something; but, Cease your destructive misdoing, Do ye nothing!

Verb

1. Present participle of misdo