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Synonyms for malfeasance
mælˈfi zənsmalfea·sance
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Wiktionary
malfeasancenoun
wrongdoing
Synonyms:
wrongdoing, misconduct
Princeton's WordNet
malfeasancenoun
wrongful conduct by a public official
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#15297 | misconduct | |
#34066 | wrongdoing | |
#53474 | embezzlement | |
#62594 | misappropriation | |
#77176 | malfeasance |
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What bothered them was that we were exposing their malfeasance.
While the emails have never been the focus of our investigation, it was necessary to obtain them, and this committee is the first and only one to do so, if anyone wonders why the investigation is not yet complete, the malfeasance and numerous problems identified in this report are Exhibit A, and prove the committee has faced serial delays from day one at the hands of public officials who sought to avoid transparency and accountability. Congressional Democrats spent most of the day on Wednesday playing down the State Department audit. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Secretary Clinton had acted in good conscience and that Secretary Clinton email practices were consistent with what past secretaries of state had done. The audit did not name any other secretaries who had done so. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee, accused Republicans of attacking Secretary Clinton only because Secretary Clinton is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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.
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.
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.
Translations for malfeasance
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- المخالفاتArabic
- zločin, sabotáž, trestný čin, zákon, přestoupení, zneužitíCzech
- embedsmisbrugDanish
- Amtsuntreue, Untat, Schandtat, Sabotageakt, Sabotage, ÜbeltatGerman
- αδικοπραγίαGreek
- maldad, abuso de autoridad, crimenSpanish
- بدکاریPersian
- väärinkäytFinnish
- malversationFrench
- olc, sabotàisScottish Gaelic
- दुराचारHindi
- gonosztettHungarian
- penyimpanganIndonesian
- misfattoItalian
- עבירהHebrew
- 不正行為Japanese
- maleficio existimabatLatin
- misdadigerDutch
- funksjonsfeilNorwegian
- nieprawidłowośćPolish
- prevaricaçãoPortuguese
- încălcarea legiiRomanian
- злодеяниеRussian
- malverzacijaSerbo-Croatian
- ämbetsbrottSwedish
- ரீதியான நடத்தைகளும்Tamil
- దురాచారంTelugu
- การผิดวินัยThai
- kTurkish
- злочинствоUkrainian
- لاپتہUrdu
- sự bất lươngVietnamese
- malfeasanceYiddish
- 渎职Chinese
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