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Misconduct

noun

Bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf.

Activity that transgresses moral or civil law. Synonyms: actus reus, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct.

verb

Behave badly. Synonyms: misbehave, misdemean.

Manage badly or incompetently. Synonyms: mishandle, mismanage.

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"Misconduct" Quotes from Famous Books

... lower race of the other sex: no lady ought to be publicly insulted, let her appear in what dress she pleases. Both sexes, however, agree in exhibiting a mistaken pity, in cases of punishment, particularly by preventing that for misconduct in the ...

— An History of Birmingham (1783) • William Hutton

... as true of financial and economic misconduct as of sexual misconduct, of ways of living that are socially harmful and of political faith. We are dealing with people in a maladjusted world to whom absolute right living is practically impossible, because there are no absolutely ...

— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

... assumes a very serious obligation to him. The next administration may turn him out and nothing will be thought of it. He may be obliged to ask for his passports and leave all at once if war is threatened between his own country and that which he represents. He may, of course, be recalled for gross misconduct. But his dismissal is very serious matter to him personally, and not to be thought of on the ground of passion or caprice. Marriage is a simple business, but divorce is a very different thing. The world wants to know the reason of ...

— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... not me, it's all the world. It was in the papers, you must have read them, the most awful story, such—such depravity there never was—such treachery, such gross misconduct." ...

— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths

... on that hard fought field. Enveloped in the mists of receding years; obscured by the glamour of poetry; belied by the vivid imagination of stragglers and camp-followers who, on the first note of danger, made a frantic rush for Winchester, seeking to palliate their own misconduct by spreading exaggerated reports of disaster, the union army that confronted Early at Cedar Creek, for many years made a sorry picture, which the aureole of glory that surrounded its central figure made all the ...

— Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman - With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War • J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd

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