Definitions
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 ormisconduct - noun someone
guilty of such conduct; amalefactor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one guilty of malfeasance
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Examples
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The media, such as CNN, is malfeasant in its journalistic ethics, so that means someone else has to speak up with the facts.
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Too bad CNN and most of the rest of "journalists" are dishonest and malfeasant, and put their political bias ahead of doing their jobs responsibly,
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Local malfeasant with cartoon middle name such as "the librarian", "the landscape gardener" or "the ticket inspector" botches a hit and has to get out of town for a while.
2010 – a Mourinho of a year, a special one | Kevin McKenna 2011
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Resolved, That the House disapproves of the malfeasant manner in which the Democratic Leadership has thereby discharged the duties of their offices.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Marshall Field v. Clark Preclude a Challenge to “Deem and Pass”? 2010
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Resolved, That the House disapproves of the malfeasant manner in which the Democratic Leadership has thereby discharged the duties of their offices.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Marshall Field v. Clark Preclude a Challenge to “Deem and Pass”? 2010
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Not only will Republicans be basically powerless, they will also have to endure the ignominy of Bush administration officials and employees testifying under oath before the investgation committees of Waxman, Conyers, Leahy, Boxer, Levin, etc. and proving to everyone just how corrupt, dishonest and malfeasant Bush Republicans have truly been.
McCain: Sorry, Five Joint Appearances With Obama Just Won't Do It 2009
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The problem here is the tendency to conflate all "negative attacks" as equally malfeasant.
Hillary And Obama Campaigns Both Pull Their Negative Ads 2009
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Federal troops in a policing role is just as violative of Posse Comitatus statutes as state peace officers functioning in a military role at “war” (vs. theater of drugs): consequential gains realized from malfeasant actions are intrinsically unlawful.
Phelps and Obama-- leading the way Towards legalizing Marijuana. 2009
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What is unacceptable about this (so-called) "compromise" renewal of FISA is that, by immunizing the malfeasant telecoms retroactively, it strips the system of one of the checks that exist against its abuse.
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I provide a lovely graphical presentation of this wildly malfeasant, destructive nose-dive into federal budget red ink in Part 4 of my series, "The Economics of Wreckage," which stands to this day and ever after as but one piece of my record of correctly predicting what was to come of the GOP's incomprehensibly bad economic policies.
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