misfeasance

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It doesn't really matter if it was malfeasance or misfeasance, the lack of oversight and the failure to play straight with county residents is the same either way … and that means you have a decision to make.

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  1. noun Improper and unlawful execution of an act that in itself is lawful and proper.

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  • Frost's complaint will be based on the belief that Dimora has abused his power as commissioner or failed to perform duties he is required to perform by law -- alleging misfeasance, malfeasance and / or nonfeasance in office.
  • Cook was convicted of misfeasance, defined in the Impeachment Statutes as follows: —  Planet Atheism
  • COSHOCTON - Superintendent Heather Kendall will have the opportunity to answer to charges that she violated the rules of the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities board and Ohio law, had neglected her duty and committed other acts of misfeasance or malfeasance. —  coshoctontribune.com - Local News
  • It wasn't a case of municipal malfeasance and no, it wasn't even a case of a little bit of misfeasance or nonfeasance. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • Maybe the cheeky proposition that the answer to Republican misfeasance is more Republicans will sell. —  One Thousand Reasons
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  1. Anglo-Norman mesfesaunce, from mesfere, to do wrong : mes-, wrongly (from Old French; see mis-1) + fere, to do (from Latin facere; see dhē- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Formerly also misfeazance; from Old French mesfaisance, wrong, trespass, from mesfaisant, doing wrong: see misfeasant. Cf. malfeasance.
 

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