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malfeasance
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English
Etymology
From Old French malfaisance, derived from malfaire, maufaire (“to do evil”), from Latin malefaciō (“I do evil”), from male (“evilly”) + faciō (“do, make”).
Pronunciation
Noun
malfeasance (countable and uncountable, plural malfeasances)
- Wrongdoing.
- 2024 August 14, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “US weapons help Ukraine advance. Will concerns about corruption put that at risk?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
- For starters, back-burnering malfeasance, usually in the form of graft, risks repeating the kind of disastrous mistakes that the United States made in Afghanistan.
- (law) Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official and causing damage.
- Coordinate terms: misfeasance, nonfeasance
- 2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- By then, Mr. Altman had gathered more allies. Mr. Nadella, now confident that Mr. Altman was not guilty of malfeasance, threw Microsoft’s weight behind him.
Synonyms
- (wrongdoing): misconduct, wrongdoing
Related terms
Translations
wrongdoing
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misconduct doing damage
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