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malfeasance

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Adjective, Noun
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mal=fea=sance

CIDE DICTIONARY

malfeasancen. [F. malfaisance, fr. malfaisant injurious, doing ill; mal ill, evil + faisant doing, p. pr. of faire to do. See Malice, Feasible, and cf. Maleficence.].
     The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

malfeasance, n. Law evil-doing.

Derivative
malfeasant n. & adj.
Etymology
AF malfaisance f. OF malfaisant (as MAL-, faisant part. of faire do f. L facere): cf. MISFEASANCE

THESAURUS

malfeasance

abuse, abuse of office, atrocity, bad policy, befoulment, breach, conversion, corrupt administration, crime, crime against humanity, criminal tendency, criminality, criminosis, deadly sin, debasement, defalcation, defilement, delinquency, dereliction, desecration, diversion, embezzlement, enormity, error, evil, evil courses, evildoing, failure, fault, feloniousness, felony, fouling, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, impolicy, impropriety, indiscretion, inexpedience, inexpediency, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, lapse, lawbreaking, maladministration, malefaction, malpractice, malum, malversation, minor wrong, misadministration, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdirection, misdoing, misemployment, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, mismanagement, misprision, misprision of treason, misrule, misusage, misuse, mortal sin, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, positive misprision, profanation, prostitution, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, thou scarlet sin, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unutterable sin, venial sin, vice, viciousness, violation, wrong, wrong conduct, wrongdoing

ROGET THESAURUS

malfeasance

Guilt

N guilt, guiltiness, culpability, criminality, criminousness, deviation from rectitude, sinfulness, misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed, malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression, dereliction, delinquency, indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo, flaw, blot, omission, failing, failure, break, bad break!, capital crime, delictum, offense, trespass, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, malefaction, malfeasance, malversation, crime, felony, enormity, atrocity, outrage, deadly sin, mortal sin, deed without a name, corpus delicti, guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable, weighed in the balance and found wanting, exceptionable, in flagrante delicto, red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar, cui prodest scelus in fecit, culpam paena premit comes, O would the deed were good!, responsibility prevents crimes se judice nemo noce, so many laws argues so many sins.


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