misfeasance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mis=fea=sance

CIDE DICTIONARY

misfeasance, n. [OF. pref. mes- wrong (L. minus less) + faisance doing, fr. faire to do, L. facere. Cf. Malfeasance.].

 A trespass; a wrong arising from an overt act; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do.  Bouvier. Wharton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

misfeasance, n. Law a transgression, esp. the wrongful exercise of lawful authority.

Etymology

ME f. OF mesfaisance f. mesfaire misdo (as MIS-(2), faire do f. L facere): cf. MALFEASANCE

THESAURUS

misfeasance

aberrancy, aberration, abuse, abuse of office, atrocity, bad policy, befoulment, breach, conversion, corrupt administration, crime, crime against humanity, criminal tendency, criminality, criminosis, deadly sin, debasement, defalcation, defectiveness, defilement, delinquency, delusion, dereliction, desecration, deviancy, distortion, diversion, embezzlement, enormity, errancy, erroneousness, error, evil, evil courses, evildoing, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, feloniousness, felony, flaw, flawedness, fouling, genocide, guilty act, hamartia, heavy sin, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, impolicy, impropriety, indiscretion, inexpedience, inexpediency, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, lapse, lawbreaking, maladministration, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, malversation, minor wrong, misadministration, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misconstruction, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdirection, misdoing, misemployment, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, misinterpretation, misjudgment, 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, self-contradiction, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, sinfulness, slip, thou scarlet sin, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, unutterable sin, venial sin, vice, viciousness, violation, wrong, wrong conduct, wrongdoing, wrongness

ROGET THESAURUS

misfeasance

Unskillfulness

N unskillfulness, want of skill, incompetence, incompentency, inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience, disqualification, unproficiency, quackery, folly, stupidity indiscretion, thoughtlessness, sabotage, mismanagement, misconduct, impolicy, maladministration, misrule, misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance, petticoat government, absence of rule, rule of thumb, bungling, failure, screw loose: too many cooks, blunder, etourderie gaucherie, act of folly, balourdise, botch, botchery, bad job, sad work, sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild- goose chase, bungler, fool, unskillful, inexpert, bungling, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit, left-handed, heavy-handed, slovenly, slatternly, gawky, adrift, at fault, inapt, unapt, inhabile, untractable, unteachable, giddy, inconsiderate, stupid inactive, incompetent, unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified, unfit, quackish, raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice, unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c, uninitiated, unconversant, shiftless, unstatesmanlike, unadvised, ill-advised, misadvised, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted, unguided, misguided, misconducted, foolish, wild, infelicitous, penny wise and pound foolish, one's fingers being all thumbs, the right hand forgets its cunning, il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau, incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim, out of the frying pan into the fire, non omnia possumus omnes.

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.