What's the difference between maleficent and malfeasance?

Maleficent


Definition:

  • (a.) Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maleficent, Disney's latest film out on 28 May, offers the untold back story of the villain from the 1959 animated classic Sleeping Beauty, with Jolie in the title role.
  • (2) The choice of when and how to use behavioral interventions and the implications of these choices may present the nurse with certain ethical dilemmas related to ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and maleficence.
  • (3) But Maleficent still took a respectable $22m at the Chinese box office after Jolie, husband Brad Pitt and several of their children shared a birthday cake with a crowd in Shanghai and took lessons in making dim sum.
  • (4) The question of beneficence and non-maleficence must first be related to the individual and only second to the society.
  • (5) "Maleficent is actually someone who I did in the end like.
  • (6) Maleficent also features Juno Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites, India Eisley, Miranda Richardson and Kenneth Cranham, none of whom are thought to be related to Jolie.
  • (7) Forbes included her upfront fee for Disney fantasy Maleficent in their 2013 calculations, pushing her down a few spaces in this year's chart.
  • (8) Hollywood enjoyed a decisive victory in its campaign to conquer China last week when US-made films – Godzilla , Angelina Jolie's Maleficent , Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow , X-Men: Days of Future Past and Grace of Monaco – took the five top box-office slots in the country.
  • (9) Maleficent is the latest in a torrent of Hollywood remakes of children's fantasy stories, with two Snow White films hitting cinemas in the past year and several new takes on The Wizard of Oz being developed.
  • (10) Maleficent, directed by Robert Stromberg, is due to arrive in cinemas in March 2014.
  • (11) Here he outlines several types of circumstances in which medical paternalism is morally justified based on the Hippocratic principles of medical beneficence and non-maleficence.
  • (12) "Angelina Jolie's daughter Vivienne will play a minor role as the child version of Princess Aurora opposite her mother in Maleficent," Disney said in a statement.
  • (13) Health risk communication is discussed in respect to four principles of biomedical ethics: (1) autonomy, the need to protect confidentiality and provide decision-making information; (2) beneficence, an obligation to inform and to develop trust; (3) non-maleficence, not covering up study findings, not over- or underinterpreting data; and (4) justice, helping place risk in proper perspective.
  • (14) Placebo treatment is discussed from deontological and utilitarianist points of view, and violation of the ethical principles, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, autonomy and truth-telling, are considered.
  • (15) Photograph: Disney Naturally, there is more chance of Cinderella retaining her slipper than Maleficent cropping up among the Palme d'Or contenders.
  • (16) Angelina Jolie's four-year-old daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt is to join her mother in the Disney fantasy Maleficent, the studio has officially confirmed .
  • (17) These legal conditions for detention conflict with the ethical principles of autonomy, non-maleficence and beneficence and by compromising ethical principles result in inadequate clinical standards.
  • (18) Film revenues rose a healthy 15% period on period thanks to several big-budget productions including Disney's Maleficent, Marvel's Thor: The Dark World, Fast and Furious 6 and Skyfall.
  • (19) This question is discussed in the light of four ethical principles: justice, beneficence, non-maleficence and respect for autonomy.
  • (20) The criterion of maleficence for a patient, is defined in its real and ethical, individual, general and time contexts.

Malfeasance


Definition:

  • (n.) The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A vote for Hillary means we can not count on the press to honestly and diligently keep the public informed of Hillary’s potential malfeasance.
  • (2) Chinese media reports suggest the evidence laid out against Liu represented only a fraction of his malfeasance.
  • (3) This is what most Americans are sick of, perhaps even more than financial malfeasance itself – that the system is, by its nature, tilted to favor banks and wealthy traders and bankers, with their greater resources.
  • (4) "Leakers and whistleblowers, together with the investigative journalists they inform, are a critically important pressure valve, however imperfect, that protect us from an overreaching national security establishment that uses the justifiable needs of operational secrecy to avoid scrutiny for its errors of judgment, incompetence, or malfeasance.
  • (5) In shifting the focus of regulation from reining in institutional and corporate malfeasance to perpetual electronic guidance of individuals, algorithmic regulation offers us a good-old technocratic utopia of politics without politics.
  • (6) Cameron has some specific issues to answer about his conduct, most of which refer to his judgment as opposed to any malfeasance.
  • (7) Koirala has promised he will fire any official suspected of malfeasance, which has gone some way to reassure donors.
  • (8) Three hours of sexual and pharmacological excess, wanton debauchery, unfathomable avarice, gleeful misogyny, extreme narcotic brinksmanship, malfeasance and lawless behaviour is a lot to take, and some have complained of the film's relentlessness, which, if understood in formal terms, I think may be one of its main aims.
  • (9) Instead, with rising poverty and runaway unemployment, malfeasance and mistrust remain widespread.
  • (10) Finding stories of Australian corporate malfeasance on either continent requires expensive and time-consuming work.
  • (11) Thus far, no credible evidence of vote fraud or electoral malfeasance exists, despite an evidence-free claim from Trump himself .
  • (12) Week after week, we have seen dramatic allegations of malfeasance at UK and US banks.
  • (13) If ever there was a case of blatant corporate malfeasance, it’s surely the secret payments and toleration of blatant misconduct by Ailes and O’Reilly.
  • (14) As society's values are changing, manifested by an accelerated crime rate, malfeasance in high places, and seeming social indifference, have nurses maintained their ethical equilibrium?
  • (15) In keeping with their typically cautious pattern when discussing classified information, Wyden and Udall did not provide details about their claimed "iceberg" of surveillance malfeasance.
  • (16) Corruption is a cross-national issue and weak financial oversight only encourages the abuse of power and fiscal malfeasance by offering a safe and easily accessible hiding place for purloined funds.
  • (17) One understanding holds "Benghazi" as a watchword for government malfeasance.
  • (18) Enough, you might think, to make a New Jersey voter miss Jim McGreevey and Bob Toricelli , the state's former champions of political malfeasance.
  • (19) Regulators' year-old efforts to rein in malfeasance by assembling drug price databases and checking hospital invoices have barely made a dent.
  • (20) The armed services chief, General Wiranto, visited him regularly, while Habibie kept in ambiguous touch and investigations into Suharto's malfeasance got nowhere.