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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Doing ill; guilty of misconduct in office.
  • noun An ill-doer; a malefactor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One guilty of malfeasance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of, or relating to malfeasance or misconduct
  • noun someone guilty of such conduct; a malefactor

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one guilty of malfeasance

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