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Definition of malfeasance:

  • (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official

Sentence Examples:

Ross of malfeasance for selfish purposes.

Now what sort of malfeasance have you committed?

Train them, set some sort of penalty for malfeasance.

A rare mixture of malfeasance with traffic in human life!

Some suspensions, however, were made on proof of downright official malfeasance.

Peters in his mind of any specific tort or malfeasance.

The steward is expecting to be dismissed for malfeasance in office.

He was found guilty of malfeasance and was put to death.

The punishment of corruption, or malfeasance in office, was specially provided for.

One evening a court was organized to try him for "malfeasance in office."

At the same time he made a report attributing malfeasance, injustice and fraud to all.

It is needed as a remedy for malfeasance in office and to prevent the continuance thereof.

Charges of malfeasance were brought against him toward the close of his term of office.

I couldn't look you in the face, guilty as I should be of gross malfeasance in my office.

Ethnic violence, government malfeasance, and endemic crime have undermined stability and civil society.

Nearly all sudden deaths not wrought by cold steel were attributed to some secret malfeasance by drugs.

When any of them fail themselves and betray the trust imposed in them, it causes a shock to public feeling such as malfeasance in no other official position ever produces.

They determine, therefore, to divert attention of the people from the opposition of Standish to their corrupt measure and purposed malfeasance by blasting his personal reputation with social scandal.

The present head of government when he left the office of city collector, lost or destroyed his books, that they might tell no tale of the monstrous malfeasance of his administration.