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  • verb Present participle of misconduct.

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  • | Reply | Permalink ok ... but the "misconduct" in 2006 and the "misconduct" last week occured both before and AFTER he was a presidential candidate. in other words, when he was a private citizen. he wasn't "misconducting" himself while he was running for office.

    Edwards: "If You Want To Beat Me Up -- Feel Free" 2009

  • I had learned that he was addicted to drink and to gambling, had ruined himself, and was generally misconducting himself.

    The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

  • I think that he likes to insult me by misconducting himself.

    The Claverings 2005

  • Steersmen and sailors may, therefore, confidently attend to their several duties, none quitting the station assigned to them: as for ourselves, we promise to prepare for the engagement at least as well as your previous commanders, and to give no excuse for any one misconducting himself.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • He is misconducting himself in the most disgraceful way with that lame Italian woman.

    Barchester Towers 2004

  • [8] Steersmen and sailors may, therefore, confidently attend to their several duties, none quitting the station assigned to them; [9] as for ourselves, we promise to prepare for the engagement at least as well as your previous commanders, and to give no excuse for anyone misconducting himself.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • Belle in her bloomers misconducting herself, and her fancyman feeling for her tickles and Norman W. Tupper bouncing in with his peashooter just in time to be late after she doing the trick of the loop with officer Taylor. —

    Ulysses 2003

  • [8] Steersmen and sailors may, therefore, confidently attend to their several duties, none quitting the station assigned to them; [9] as for ourselves, we promise to prepare for the engagement at least as well as your previous commanders, and to give no excuse for anyone misconducting himself.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • Mr. GURNEY (to the spectators), -- I shall certainly move his Lordship to take notice of some particular persons that I see misconducting themselves.

    A Sketch of the Life of the late Henry Cooper Barrister-at-Law, of the Norfolk Circuit; as also, of his Father William Cooper

  • A sailor misconducting himself on the voyage, has at least two months 'reflection in the jail of Williamstown, commencing immediately upon his arrival.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

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