Synonyms for Malfeasance
mælˈfi zənsmalfea·sance

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1. malfeasancenoun

   wrongdoing

   Synonyms:
   wrongdoing, misconduct

Princeton's WordNet

1. malfeasancenoun

   wrongful conduct by a public official

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1. • Wrongdoing

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1. List of paraphrases for "malfeasance":

   embezzlement, misconduct, misappropriation, wrongdoing

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1. Stacey Abrams:

   For me it was déjà vu. I am very aware of the frailty and the fallacy of the notion of acts of democracy in Georgia, we watched the secretary of state in 2018 set up a system of voter suppression and we watched the current secretary of state continue the same work. The reality is this was a mix of incompetence, malfeasance. It was a deliberate indifference to voters and it's a solvable problem.

2. Mike Gallagher:

   At a minimum we need to reduce if not eliminate entirely their influence over the World Health Organization – the way in which they're blocking Taiwan from participating in the World Health Organization – that would be sort of the minimum criteria, there's another debate about whether you could create a legal construct to hold the CCP accountable for the billions if not trillions of dollars of damages that they've caused through their malfeasance.

3. Jerry Nadler:

   We have said that this is -- we've told the court, we've said it in the hearings -- that we are examining the various malfeasance of the President with the view of the possibility of recommending articles of impeachment to the White House.

4. Adam Schiff:

   What bothered them was that we were exposing their malfeasance.

5. Adam McKay:

   The Big Short you're talking about the advent of hip hop, child soldiers, the sex scandal in Catholic church and malfeasance in Wall Street - I'm pretty proud of that for Hollywood.