What does Malfeasance mean?
Definitions for Malfeasance
mælˈfi zənsmalfea·sance
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Princeton's WordNet
malfeasancenoun
wrongful conduct by a public official
Wiktionary
malfeasancenoun
wrongdoing
malfeasancenoun
Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official that causes damage.
Etymology: From malfaisance, derived from malfaire, maufaire (“do evil”), from malefacio, from male + facio.
Wikipedia
Malfeasance
Misfeasance, nonfeasance, and malfeasance are types of failure to discharge public obligations existing by common law, custom, or statute. The Carta de Logu caused Eleanor of Arborea to be remembered as one of the first lawmakers to set up the crime of misfeasance.
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malfeasance
Malfeasance is the act of deliberately doing something illegal or wrong, especially by a public official. It refers to the misuse of power or breach of trust and duties in an intentional way that harms or affects negatively on a person or organization.
Webster Dictionary
Malfeasancenoun
the doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed
Etymology: [F. malfaisance, fr. malfaisant injurious, doing ill; mal ill, evil + faisant doing, p. pr. of faire to do. See Malice, Feasible, and cf. Maleficence.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Malfeasance
mal-fē′zans, n. evil-doing: the doing of what one ought not to do: an illegal deed. [Fr. malfaisance—L. male, evil, facĕre, to do.]
Editors Contribution
Malfeasance
Malfeasance, maltreated
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Malfeasance in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Malfeasance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Malfeasance in a Sentence
Supreme Court's impossible to disagree with Judge Kavanaugh that, in a perfect world, Congress would take the lead when it comes to investigating misconduct and malfeasance by the President, but what Judge Kavanaugh seems to be implying here is not only that Congress should take the lead, but that the Constitution might itself foreclose independent prosecutors like Independent Counsel Ken Starr and Special Counsel Mueller.
( Kim) is not going to want these military commissars helping themselves to any of this assistance coming to the North, that was a problem during the sunshine period, a lot of misappropriation and malfeasance.
The Big Short you're talking about the advent of hip hop, child soldiers, the sex scandal in Catholic church and malfeasance in Wall Street - I'm pretty proud of that for Hollywood.
At a minimum we need to reduce if not eliminate entirely their influence over the World Health Organization – the way in which they're blocking Taiwan from participating in the World Health Organization – that would be sort of the minimum criteria, there's another debate about whether you could create a legal construct to hold the CCP accountable for the billions if not trillions of dollars of damages that they've caused through their malfeasance.
While the emails have never been the focus of our investigation, it was necessary to obtain them, and this committee is the first and only one to do so, if anyone wonders why the investigation is not yet complete, the malfeasance and numerous problems identified in this report are Exhibit A, and prove the committee has faced serial delays from day one at the hands of public officials who sought to avoid transparency and accountability. Congressional Democrats spent most of the day on Wednesday playing down the State Department audit. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Secretary Clinton had acted in good conscience and that Secretary Clinton email practices were consistent with what past secretaries of state had done. The audit did not name any other secretaries who had done so. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee, accused Republicans of attacking Secretary Clinton only because Secretary Clinton is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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- المخالفاتArabic
- zločin, sabotáž, trestný čin, zákon, přestoupení, zneužitíCzech
- embedsmisbrugDanish
- Amtsuntreue, Untat, Schandtat, Sabotageakt, Sabotage, ÜbeltatGerman
- αδικοπραγίαGreek
- maldad, abuso de autoridad, crimenSpanish
- بدکاریPersian
- väärinkäytFinnish
- malversationFrench
- olc, sabotàisScottish Gaelic
- दुराचारHindi
- gonosztettHungarian
- penyimpanganIndonesian
- misfattoItalian
- עבירהHebrew
- 不正行為Japanese
- maleficio existimabatLatin
- misdadigerDutch
- funksjonsfeilNorwegian
- nieprawidłowośćPolish
- prevaricaçãoPortuguese
- încălcarea legiiRomanian
- злодеяниеRussian
- malverzacijaSerbo-Croatian
- ämbetsbrottSwedish
- ரீதியான நடத்தைகளும்Tamil
- దురాచారంTelugu
- การผิดวินัยThai
- kTurkish
- злочинствоUkrainian
- لاپتہUrdu
- sự bất lươngVietnamese
- malfeasanceYiddish
- 渎职Chinese
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