Word of the Day: MALEFACTOR

Offender or evildoer

malefactor (noun) - a person who does harm or evil, especially to another person [mal-uh-fak-ter]

BREAKDOWN: MAL- (evil) + FAC- (to make or do) + -OR (one who does)

See also: artifice, beneficiary, edifice, facsimile, factotum, officious, ramification, simulate, suffice, verisimilitude

“Mankind divides itself into two classes—benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson