…then what is a person who commits a misdemeanor? A misdmeany?
Dunno, but isn’t “jeopardy” defined as “the act committed by a jeopard” ?
a misdemeanant.
(I may be off on spelling, the last sylable is prounced like the insect).
a perpetrator 
Oh, all right, somebody has to say it:
“Sex is a misdemeanor. De more I miss, de meaner I get.”
Thank you, wring. Now I can finish that job application…
yr. welcome. Never know on these threads when people are actually looking for a straight answer (and yes, I know there’s lots of jokes that are to be made with that)
The spelling is correct. There is also a verb misdemean.
Hijacking, but a nifty bit of etymology…Felon is derived from the Latin fellare, mening “to suck”, and yes, used in an obscene sense.
What about miscreant?
I personally have never heard of misdemean or misdemeanant, maybe they are american english?
What would misdemean mean anyway - I wanted to demean you but failed to do it properly? Let me try again now. 
my dictionary lists a “miscreant” as a villian or evil doer. There is no word listed for misdemean.
Misdemeanor is crime, classification of something less than a felony.
My dictionary is bigger than yours! Nanny, nanny, nanny! Sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
Yes a miscreant is an evil doer, but I have only ever seen it used (or used it myself) for something that is not serious - less than a felony.
And so what does misdemean actually mean? Although I can guess what it means, what is the actual meaning? (living in a place without any english dictionaries - translation dictionaries yes, but no english-english ones)
“quality, not quantity” nyeh.( )
Flo don’t believe that misdemean IS a word.
yea, I think common usage for miscreant is more of a “childish prank” nature than true evil, but that goes along with the misdeamenor is less than a felony concept as well.
My (admittedly smaller than bibliophage’s) dictionary lists:
miscreant (already discussed), misdemeanant (already discussed), misdemeanor (already discussed), misdemeanour (variant spelling of misdemeanor), but no word “misdemean”.
Black’s Law Dictionary (6th ed. 1990)
Spelling error:
That should be “Misdemeanant”
I say that Flo SHOULD believe it is a word.
misdemean \Mis`de*mean", v. t. To behave ill; – with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one’s self.
[sub]Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.[/sub]
misdemean: \Mis`de*mean", v. t. To behave ill; – with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one’s self.
[sub]Source: Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.[/sub]
…How’s that?
I sit corrected [sub] damn those itty bitty dictionaries anyhow…[/sub]
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