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Malfeasance   /mˌælfˈizəns/   Listen
Malfeasance

noun
(Written also malefeasance)
1.
Wrongful conduct by a public official.





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"Malfeasance" Quotes from Famous Books



... before the House of Lords, and the bill of impeachment was brought forward. There were a great many charges, beginning with that of having wickedly and with corrupt motives surrendered, and so lost forever to the crown, the provinces of Maine and Anjou, and going on to numerous accusations of malfeasance in office, of encroachments on the prerogatives of the king, and of acts in which the interest and honor of the country had been sacrificed to his own personal ambition or private ends. Suffolk defended himself in a ...
— Margaret of Anjou - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... 1917, Premier Martin, successor to Hon. W. Scott, whom ill-health had forced to retire—made definite provision for an educational Survey. "This survey is in no sense of the word an investigation; for investigations are necessarily based on assumption of some sort of misfeasance or malfeasance. It is instead a sympathetic inquiry into the schools of the people as the schools actually exist. Suggestions for enlargement and re-direction ...
— Catholic Problems in Western Canada • George Thomas Daly


Words linked to "Malfeasance" :   wrongful conduct, misconduct, wrongdoing, actus reus


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