(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.
Misfeasance
Definition:
(n.) A trespass; a wrong done; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the vocational, comprehensive, and agricultural schools, the dropouts scored more positively on the self-estrangement, meaninglessness, and misfeasance scales.
(2) Trustees could therefore be held liable for misfeasance if they make payment to one particular creditor ahead of others or if they continue to make payments to beneficiaries when there are outstanding creditors.
(3) Six Libyan men, the widow of a seventh, and five British citizens of Libyan and Somali origin are bringing a number of claims, which include allegations of false imprisonment, blackmail, misfeasance in public office and conspiracy to assault.
(4) Three of the most important nonacoustic factors are the connotative fear effects of the noise signal, the feeling that those responsible for the noise are misfeasant in not reducing the noise, and the feeling that harmful health effects are produced by the noise.
(5) In contrast, if the feelings are a low fear level, a low degree of misfeasance, and minimal health effects, only 3 to 10 per cent give high annoyance responses.
(6) When residents report great fear, a high misfeasance, and marked health effects, about 90 per cent report a high annoyance level whether their noise exposure level is above 90 Ldn or 65 to 70 Ldn.
(7) However, the judge said that other claims for damages under common law, including torts of misfeasance in public office, deceit, assault and negligence, should be heard by the high court.
(8) In a statement David Francis, deputy chief constable of South Wales police, said: "We have consistently maintained our position that the officers who worked on the investigation into the murder of Philip Saunders did so in good faith and the force was not liable for malicious prosecution or misfeasance.
(9) Six Libyan men, the widow of a seventh, and five British citizens of Libyan and Somali origin are bringing claims against the British government on the basis of the recovered documents, alleging false imprisonment, blackmail, misfeasance in public office and conspiracy to assault.
(10) The shortcomings of forensic psychiatrists in the courtroom fall into two categories: failure to meet expected levels of performance in evaluation and testimony; and unethical behavior or deliberate misfeasance.
(11) Their claims of deceit, assault, negligence and misfeasance in public office arise out of long-term and intimate sexual relationships they had with four men who – unknown to them – were members of the special demonstration squad (SDS), between 1987 and 2007.