malfeasancein a sentence
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She denied all allegations of malfeasance, insisting that the money in her account was a gift.
malfeasance = illegal behavior by someone in a position of trust
- The mayor was charged with gross malfeasance.
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No, actually the charge was malfeasance. Accepting remunerations for favorable decisions, that sort of thing.
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malfeasance = illegal behavior by a public official
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It contained the order for Napoleon Bonaparte to be placed under immediate arrest, to be returned to Paris in irons to stand trial for treason, sedition, disloyalty, and malfeasance.
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malfeasance = illegal behavior by someone in a position of trust
- Or whether they figured that the Lord had delivered the enemy into their hands, that they could get him dead to rights on the business of attempting to corrupt, coerce, and blackmail the Legislature, in addition to the other little charges of malfeasance and nonfeasance. (source)
- Honestly, in the governmental bureaucracy of Winter Park High School, Jasper Hanson was like Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Athletics and Malfeasance.† (source)
- "This malfeasance must be stopped," said Flora in a deep and superheroic voice.† (source)
- "I mean, we are talking about malfeasance here, aren't we?"† (source)
- Even if there were a trustworthy band of spellcasters adept enough to watch over all the other magicians in Alagaesia—ready to intervene at the slightest hint of malfeasance—we would still be reliant upon the very ones whose powers we sought to restrain.† (source)
- It is within my competence to adjust malfeasance and to see to the comfort and dignity of the passengers, for example, while the train is in the field of maneuver at Bolzano.† (source)
- Like most Americans I am no lover of cops, and the consistent investigation of city forces for bribery, brutality, and a long and picturesque list of malfeasances is not designed to reassure me.† (source)
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- The charge of malfeasance was a serious one.† (source)
- "This malfeasance must be stopped!" shouted Flora.† (source)
- "Keep your eyes open for malfeasance," she said to him.† (source)
- Would I stay in business if I made a habit of malfeasance?† (source)
- She said, "This malfeasance must be stopped.† (source)
- You let the boy make a simulacra of you, then bring him here on malfeasance?† (source)
- Self-defense or no, what I'd done was unquestionably malfeasance.† (source)
- And it isn't malfeasance if you give him your hair and watch him stick it on the mommet's head."† (source)
- Any harmful sympathy falls under malfeasance.† (source)
- "They can't let a student get off bird-free after they've voted him guilty of malfeasance."† (source)
- "Malfeasance," Wilem said in a low voice.† (source)
- "The grievance of malfeasance against E'lir Kvothe."† (source)
- "Treason, sedition, malfeasance, and if that weren't enough, now insubordination.† (source)
- And so now, when there is a great crisis, when malfeasance is apparent, Alfred turns himself into ….† (source)
- "Malfeasance," said Flora again.† (source)
- This malfeasance will be stopped!† (source)
- "This malfeasance must be stopped" was what the unassuming janitor Alfred T Slipper always said before he was transformed into the amazing Incandesto and became a towering, crime-fighting pillar of light.† (source)
- "It's not malfeasance," Arwyl said doggedly, glaring at Hemme from behind his spectacles, the grandfatherly lines on his face forming a fierce scowl.† (source)
- He had accused me of malfeasance.† (source)
- The second grievance: malfeasance.† (source)
- I arrived in the Masters' Hall early and was relieved to find the atmosphere much more relaxed than when I'd gone on the horns for malfeasance against Hemme.† (source)
- True malfeasance.† (source)
- Priest ! traitor confirmed in malfeasance.† (source)
- "By advantage taken of one in fault, in dire peril, and at thy mercy, thou hast seized goods worth above thirteenpence ha'penny, paying but a trifle for the same; and this, in the eye of the law, is constructive barratry, misprision of treason, malfeasance in office, ad hominem expurgatis in statu quo—and the penalty is death by the halter, without ransom, commutation, or benefit of clergy."† (source)
- …waive my privilege of gentle blood, and come down and put myself on a level with the lowly birth of the wrong-doer, making myself equal with him and enabling him to enter into combat with me; and so, I challenge and defy him, though absent, on the plea of his malfeasance in breaking faith with this poor damsel, who was a maiden and now by his misdeed is none; and say that he shall fulfill the promise he gave her to become her lawful husband, or else stake his life upon the question.† (source)
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