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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
misdeal .
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Examples
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As Elizabeth Warren, the brilliant head of the congressional oversight panel on the bank bailout has noted, no one has exposed the record of pervasive fraud and misdealing that was at the base of the housing bubble.
Robert L. Borosage: Time for a Grand Inquest on the Financial Crisis 2009
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Specifically, if they can establish regional funds, as the South American countries have begun to do with the Bank of the South, then they can hope to insulate themselves from the financial dealings and misdealing of the wealthy countries.
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McDougal grew even more embittered after he was indicted and tried for eight federal felony counts for conspiracy, fraud, false statements and fiscal misdealing.
Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton 2003
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McDougal grew even more embittered after he was indicted and tried for eight federal felony counts for conspiracy, fraud, false statements and fiscal misdealing.
Living History Hillary Rodham Clinton 2003
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As is usual in hasty judgments, the many have been stigmatized with the vices of the few: the misconduct of reckless servants has been held forth as bespeaking the habits of the whole class, and the misdealing cupidity of a few purveyors of fashionable luxuries has been set down as the almost uniform rule of conduct of the worthiest classes in the empire.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 576, November 17, 1832 Various
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At the opening of play, partners are arranged and the cards are shuffled, cut and dealt (the last card not being turned) as at whist; but the dealer cannot lose the deal by misdealing.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Out of this has grown much suspicion and perhaps some misdealing.
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Scott expressed his "utmost, absolute respect" for Ammons, but said he should be sidelined during the criminal investigation into the beating death of a Marching 100 drum major and allegations of financial misdealing on campus.
USATODAY.com News 2011
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Two games officials have been suspended pending investigations of misdealing and one has quit.
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To protect themselves from any claim of misdealing should they sell it privately or give it to a broker to sell or any other possible avenue of liquidation, the banks auction.
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