(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.
Wrongdoing
Definition:
(n.) Evil or wicked behavior or action.
Example Sentences:
(1) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
(2) On the one hand, putting past wrongdoing behind it helps a company to move on.
(3) The FSA, which was going to be given oversight of hedge funds, will instead be able to demand cooperation from them and from other financial firms it does not regulation during investigations into wrongdoing.
(4) Those wrongdoings taint a whole industry beyond the handful of people and that makes it a huge problem."
(5) Sarkozy, who lost his immunity from prosecution when he failed to secure a second term in office in May, has denied any wrongdoing.
(6) Yentob was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing in October 2004, following an investigation by then BBC chief operating office John Smith.
(7) FBI director: new Hillary Clinton emails show no criminal wrongdoing Read more “Here in Minnesota, you’ve seen first-hand the problems caused with faulty refugee vetting, with very large numbers of Somali refugees coming into your state without your knowledge, without your support or approval,” the Republican nominee told a rally in the solidly Democratic state, two days before the presidential election.
(8) the charge, saying that the Bank simply had "no evidence of wrongdoing" in 2008.
(9) Brandis said nothing in the bill would stop Asio whistleblowers from reporting suspected wrongdoing to the inspector general of intelligence and security.
(10) • Crone and the former NoW editor Colin Myler "misled the committee by answering questions falsely about their knowledge of evidence that other News of the World employees had been involved in phone-hacking and other wrongdoing".
(11) There are allegations of very, very serious dereliction of duty and of wrongdoing by people in the police at the time who were investigating – it is alleged – some of the most grotesque crimes imaginable.” According to Newsnight, the officers involved said they did not know the senior figure who threatened them.
(12) To have a blanket rule of pre-notification really concerns me in terms of the crucial importance for journalists to go out there and investigate wrongdoing," he said.
(13) The standards committee report by a cross-party group of MPs said it "deplored" stings but would "not hesitate to act in such cases if wrongdoing had occurred".
(14) The Senate’s economic references committee accused Asic of missing or ignoring persistent signs of wrongdoing , characterising it as a “timid, hesitant regulator” that was too ready to uncritically accept assurances of a large institution that there were no grounds for intervention.
(15) We encourage people to speak up if they have concerns" #gsk July 24, 2013 12.29pm BST Witty says this investigation is "quite different" to the whistleblower claims the company recently investigated and found no evidence of wrongdoing.
(16) He told the chair, Alexis Jay: “We will never be able to undo the wrongdoing to these children.
(17) As the dust settles and the truth comes out, it’s become totally clear that the only people who engaged in wrongdoing are the criminals behind this fraud, and we’re glad they’re being held accountable.
(18) After international pressure, Sri Lanka conducted its own review of the war that essentially cleared government forces of wrongdoing although it did highlight evidence of possible military abuses that warranted further investigation.
(19) Hastie has been cleared of any wrongdoing in that incident by the ADF.
(20) Moreover, the state-controlled Chinese media have in a series of broadcasts denounced a number of detained “suspects” as members of a crime syndicate engaging in “rights-defence-style troublemaking”, and paraded some of those detained “confessing” to wrongdoing before they have even been publicly indicted.