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malfeasance

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11 lettersPronunciation /ˌmælˈfiːzəns/Part of speech nounSorted aaaceeflmnsStarts with MEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. wrongful conduct by a public official

Word origin

From Old French malfaisance, derived from malfaire, maufaire (“to do evil”), from Latin malefaciō (“to do evil”), from male (“evilly”) + faciō (“to do, make”).

Used in a sentence

  • For starters, back-burnering malfeasance, usually in the form of graft, risks repeating the kind of disastrous mistakes that the United States made in Afghanistan.
  • By then, Mr. Altman had gathered more allies. Mr. Nadella, now confident that Mr. Altman was not guilty of malfeasance, threw Microsoft’s weight behind him.

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