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malfeasance

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[ UK /mˌælfˈiːzəns/ ]
[ US /ˌmæɫˈfizəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. wrongful conduct by a public official

How To Use malfeasance In A Sentence

  • But since there's nothing at all wrong with the statute that requires him to perform the ministerial task he has so far petulantly avoided, and because his malfeasance has been used to aggrieve the lawfully appointed Burris, White should be harshly condemned at the very least. Jeff Norman: Victory For Blago and Burris is Imminent
  • In both cases, failures would not justify an investigation into malfeasance or complicity.
  • Last Friday's business news was not untypical: the financial news wires now march to the constant drumbeat of corporate malfeasance.
  • How much criminality and malfeasance is required to cut these urban parasites off from the money they can't raise on their own? House passes amendment to cut government funding for ACORN
  • South African geeks are trying to get their government regulators to pay some attention to this: the telco is keeping the country in the technological dark-ages in order to preserve its dinosauric bizmodel, and the whole national economy is at stake if South Africa ends up largely off the Internet grid as a result of malfeasance and incompetence. Boing Boing: September 14, 2003 - September 20, 2003 Archives
  • Unions and victims' groups have already accused the company of fraud, deceit and corporate malfeasance.
  • But this litigation is often the only means to protect society from medical malpractice or corporate malfeasance.
  • Firstly, restitution of previously misappropriated assets provides a strong deterrent to future malfeasance.
  • Also, when people come in to start a recall and I show them the legal definitions of 'misfeasance' and 'malfeasance,' that usually stops it right there. Archive 2003-08-01
  • When low performance leads to an organizational crisis, rumors of executive malfeasance spread like wildfire among rank-and-file members.
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