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Malefactor
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MALEFACTOR. He who bas been guilty of some crime; in another sense, one who has been convicted of having committed a crime.


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Even Jane Austen's portrayals of life among the lesser gentry are strangely dominated by the benefactions and malefactions of the upper nobility, Darnley in Pride and Prejud ice, for example.
The Questions & Answers column in PR Week (12/17/01) led its commentary on Maura Farrell with this malefaction.
Thompson's version focuses too greatly on the financial fun and games, making Wedtech seem as if it existed solely as a shell, a boiler room invention through which one money malefaction after another could be concocted and implemented.
 
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