(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.
Misconduct
Definition:
(n.) Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement.
(v. t.) To conduct amiss; to mismanage.
(v. i.) To behave amiss.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the next few days, I look forward to reviewing this guilty plea closely to see whether it appropriately holds officers, directors and key executives individually accountable and whether the plea will be sufficient to help deter similar misconduct in the future,” he said.
(2) The club’s alumni president, Charles Storey, had previously written a letter to the student newspaper to argue that “forcing single-gender organizations to accept members of the opposite sex could potentially increase, not decrease, the potential for sexual misconduct”.
(3) And it was at the second meeting – a short meeting, sure – where Philip made the suggestion that maybe [Brayley] would wish to speak to someone else and get some kind of counselling or assistance.” It was revealed on Monday that the medical board has referred 12 other matters of alleged professional misconduct by Nitschke to the tribunal, to be heard at a later date regardless of whether Nitschke is successful with the current appeal or not.
(4) But had the IPCC decided to take on the inquiry as an independent investigation, it would have been able to force a misconduct panel to take place.
(5) He was found guilty of misconduct by an independent FA commission and banned for four matches.
(6) Government officials drew the public’s ire after charging Manning with three counts of misconduct following the suicide attempt, including two which carried possible penalties of indefinite solitary confinement.
(7) Another judge, of some seniority, has resigned after a finding of serious misconduct.
(8) "The claimants were entirely innocent of any misconduct," Westgate said.
(9) We must also parallel our strident disapproval of misconduct with an objective exploration of the dynamics of both parties and the human commonality of sexual feelings.
(10) In three cases he was judged to have demonstrated either "deficient professional performance" or misconduct.
(11) Student and faculty definitions of dishonest behavior were compared, and the incidence of dishonest behavior and the experiences of faculty in recognizing and disciplining students for academic misconduct were analyzed.
(12) However,, between January 2009 and June 2014, the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent agency that investigates police misconduct, received 1,128 civilian complaints involving chokehold allegations.
(13) "Sir Jeremy could and should have advised the prime minister to refer the allegations of ministerial misconduct to the prime minister's adviser for a fuller investigation.
(14) We see that Google has engaged in misconduct in a broad number of member states since 2008 and continues to do so,” Margrethe Vestager, EU’s competition commissioner, said at the time .
(15) In 1988, the United States Supreme Court determined that "primary alcoholism" is "willful misconduct" that disqualifies veterans for an extension of time for educational benefits eligibility based on disability.
(16) I have full confidence in the ability of these bodies to identify any potential misconduct and examine all relevant information.” Responding to media reports on Friday morning, he also said it was the right decision for the public interest disclosure commissioner to stand aside after declaring her own conflict of interest in the matter.
(17) In the same month, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI), an obscure branch of the US National Institutes of Health, awarded Hartgerink a small grant – about $100,000 – to pursue new projects investigating misconduct, including the completion of his program to detect fabricated data.
(18) The three doctors face allegations of serious professional misconduct over their study, published in the Lancet journal in 1998, which suggested a link between autism and MMR vaccination.
(19) A survey of medical schools in the United States and Canada reveals that only two of 133 responding institutions have developed policy guidelines addressing the issues of fraud and misconduct in biomedical research.
(20) What is often overlooked in discussions of the racist text messages is the fact that both were discovered in the course of investigations into serious misconduct by SFPD officers.