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malefeasance

malefeasance is the obsolete spelling of malfeasance.

Meaning of malfeasance

Noun

malfeasance (countable and uncountable, plural malfeasances)

  1. Wrongdoing.
    • 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.2024 August 14, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “US weapons help Ukraine advance. Will concerns about corruption put that at risk?”, in The Christian Science Monitor
  2. Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official and causing damage.
    • 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.2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of malefeasance

pluralmalefeasances

Questions about malefeasance

What is malefeasance the obsolete spelling of?
Malefeasance is the obsolete spelling of malfeasance.

Words near malefeasance in the dictionary

  1. malefactures
  2. malefail
  3. malefailed
  4. malefailing
  5. malefails
  6. malefeasance
  7. malefeasances
  8. maleffect
  9. maleffects
  10. malefic
  11. malefic planet

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