Nor can he ever hope to live down this terrible social misdemeanour, especially if it is accompanied by the least ostentation.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
I have concluded this to be some signal punishment inflicted upon him, by the officers of the police, for some pilfering misdemeanour; or, perhaps, that it was a crew of bailiffs carrying an execution into his house.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Of his first great cloud-for, if he did not quite forget his first love, he soon got a second and even a third-a cloud that came out of a letter that reached him in camp at Rawal Pindi, and told him that his father, a solicitor of unblemished character till then, had been indicted for fraudulent practices, and would have to stand his trial for misdemeanour.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan