Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Evil-doing; the doing of that which ought not to be done; wrongful conduct, especially official misconduct; violation of a public trust or obligation; specifically, the doing of an act which is positively unlawful or wrongful, in contradistinction to misfeasance, or the doing of a lawful act in a wrongful manner. The term is often inappropriately used instead of misfeasance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
wrongdoing - noun law Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official that causes
damage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun wrongful conduct by a public official
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you're a professional, exposure of your malfeasance is the critic's job.
Archive 2007-07-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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If you're a professional, exposure of your malfeasance is the critic's job.
Stumblin' Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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In the REAL WORLD this kind of malfeasance is scienter for a class action.
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How much criminality and malfeasance is required to cut these urban parasites off from the money they can't raise on their own?
House passes amendment to cut government funding for ACORN 2009
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The inability to get to the bottom of things -- or the top -- when military malfeasance is at issue is an instance of the "culture of impunity."
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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But all this malfeasance is done by state and local governments.
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But all this malfeasance is done by state and local governments.
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If fraud and malfeasance is proven, it should be severely prosecuted.
The 1990's Bubble Economy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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“But all this malfeasance is done by state and local governments.”
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Their shady deals and malfeasance is ruining our Middle Class and destroying our working poor.
bilby commented on the word malfeasance
"Hats off to the Illinois governor for shooting so high above and beyond the normal arc of political malfeasance that he's probably annoyed NASA by interfering with satellite traffic. After years of highlighting nuances and scrutinizing minute distinctions, it's downright thrilling to finally find someone acting crookeder than a dump truck full of dissembled wire hangers. Excuse me. I mean, finally finding someone GETTING CAUGHT acting crookeder than a dump truck full of dissembled wire hangers. It's not every day the FBI arrests a sitting governor at his house at six in the morning: We're talking movie of the week here. I see Casey Affleck in a bad wig. With Aaron Eckhart as Patrick Fitzgerald."
- Will Durst, 'Giving Governors a Bad Name', caglepost.com, 14 Dec 2008.
December 15, 2008
Gexe commented on the word malfeasance
Such a great word, in meaning and sound.
February 8, 2009
Quintesabd commented on the word malfeasance
Malfeasance is often condoned in a country of injustice; such deliberated ignorance gradually engender the whole state in collapse.
December 12, 2016