Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Wrong conduct; misbehavior.
- noun Mismanagement.
- To conduct amiss; mismanage.
- With a reflexive pronoun, to misbehave.
from 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;
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Bad
behavior . - verb transitive To
mismanage . - verb intransitive, rare To
act improperly.
from 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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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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And one of the most troubling findings in our study was that clergy sexual misconduct is three times more likely to take place in the life of an African-American woman than a white woman.
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Here's the harsh truth about our immigration system: When 392,000 immigrants are detained per year and 33,000 more are detained every day with limited staff and minimal federal oversight, institutional misconduct is inevitable.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons The Media Consortium 2010
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What's more: the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) -- a separate agency from DHS -- is actively shielding this misconduct from the public and trying to avoid federal oversight:
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons The Media Consortium 2010
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Here's the harsh truth about our immigration system: When 392,000 immigrants are detained per year and 33,000 more are detained every day with limited staff and minimal federal oversight, institutional misconduct is inevitable.
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons The Media Consortium 2010
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Or in the case of a tall person, their foot accidentally hitting the fatso donut eaters chubby ankle spread wide "to offer himself to people who want lewd misconduct" is a crime?
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C-Street is a secret society made up of high profile individuals who perform in misconduct and their actions of misconduct are to be only contained in that society.
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And one of the most troubling findings in our study was that clergy sexual misconduct is three times more likely to take place in the life of an African-American woman than a white woman.
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And while we might even agree that SOME Bush appointees did wrong, for whatever reason, you can't possibly be completely unaware of what has been going on in the Obama Justice Department, or so selective in memory that you think such misconduct is limited to people Bush appointed.
Discourse.net: Stopping the Rot in the US Justice System 2009
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What's more: the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) -- a separate agency from DHS -- is actively shielding this misconduct from the public and trying to avoid federal oversight:
The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: Lawless Judges, Immigrant Soldiers, and Deportee Pardons The Media Consortium 2010
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