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malfeasance

/mal-fee-zuhns/US // mælˈfi zəns //UK // (mælˈfiːzəns) //

渎职行为,渎职,渎职罪,失职

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Law.

    • : the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing.Compare misfeasance, nonfeasance.

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Examples

  • He’s a boxing trainer whose wife dies because of a pharmaceutical company’s greed and malfeasance—and because she has cancer.

  • Digital currencies will help governments fight malfeasance, smooth the transfer of assets across borders, and enable central banks to deal directly with citizens—especially helpful in times of crisis.

  • He seemed personally enraged by public malfeasance and corruption by public officials.

  • Its elections long have been flagged for malfeasance and misadministration.

  • In this regard, the latest updates make it even more difficult for companies to get away with this type of malfeasance.

  • The commission has accused Yingluck of malfeasance in a rice-subsidy program aimed at improving the incomes of Thai rice farmers.

  • The prime minister must appear before the anti-corruption commission on February 27 to answer the malfeasance charges.

  • Allegations of malfeasance against Raheen continue to surface.

  • In the weeklong trial, the Pittsburgh lawyer laid out the most devastating account of corporate malfeasance.

  • Arguably that question points to a much larger problem than Stapel's malfeasance.

  • I never heard of any of them being removed for incompetency, dereliction of duty or malfeasance.

  • The knowledge of this added treachery hath come to me but recently; and this also was of Rizzo's malfeasance.

  • Removals were made for neglect of duty, malfeasance in office, refusing to obey orders, and obstructing Reconstruction.

  • Don Nicholas de Ovando pleaded smoothly the Sovereign's most strict command which in any to disobey were plain malfeasance!

  • At Sienna he learned that his house had been pillaged and burned and he himself had been accused of malfeasance in office.