Misconduct

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Behavior not conforming to prevailing standards or laws; impropriety.
  • noun. The act or an instance of adultery.
  • noun. Dishonest or bad management, especially by persons entrusted or engaged to act on another's behalf.
  • noun. Deliberate wrongdoing, especially by government or military officials.
  • transitive verb. To mismanage.
  • transitive verb. To behave (oneself) improperly.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Wrong conduct; misbehavior.
  • noun. Mismanagement.
  • To conduct amiss; mismanage.
  • With a reflexive pronoun, to misbehave.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To behave amiss.
  • transitive verb. To conduct amiss; to mismanage.
  • transitive verb. to behave improperly.
  • noun. Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement.
  • noun. Unlawful or unethical conduct by a person holding a public office or having a position of responsibility in the administration of justice; malfeasance;
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To mismanage.
  • verb. To act improperly.
  • noun. Bad behavior.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. activity that transgresses moral or civil law
  • verb. manage badly or incompetently
  • verb. behave badly
  • noun. bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf
  • Word Usage
    "In a move that deepened the war-torn country's political crisis, Abdullah said he would quit the November 7 contest in protest against what he called misconduct on behalf of the government and the electoral commission."
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