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malfeasance

Syllables: mal·fea·sance/ˌmælˈfiːzəns/

malfeasance noun: wrongdoing.

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

malfeasance meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

malfeasance in Tamil

சட்டமுரண்பிழை

malfeasance in Urdu

بدی

malfeasance in Bengali

আইনবিরোধী, অনৈতিক কাজ

malfeasance in Malayalam

അന്യായപ്രവൃത്തി, ദുഷ്ടപ്രവൃത്തി, അപരാധം
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malfeasance in Kannada
ದುರಾಚಾರ, ದುಷ್ಕೃತ್ಯ, ದುಷ್ಕಾರ್ಯ

Synonyms of malfeasance

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Forms of malfeasance

pluralmalfeasances

Origin of malfeasance

From Old French malfaisance, derived from malfaire, maufaire (“to do evil”), from Latin malefaciō (“to do evil”), from male (“evilly”) + faciō (“to do, make”).

Questions about malfeasance

What does malfeasance mean?
Malfeasance means wrongdoing.
What is malfeasance in Tamil?
Malfeasance in Tamil is சட்டமுரண்பிழை. See Malfeasance meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is malfeasance?
Malfeasance is a noun.
How do you pronounce malfeasance?
Malfeasance is pronounced /ˌmælˈfiːzəns/.
What is the plural of malfeasance?
The plural of malfeasance is malfeasances.

Words near malfeasance in the dictionary

  1. Maleys
  2. malfatti
  3. Malfatti circle
  4. Malfatti circles
  5. Malfatti's problem
  6. malfeasance
  7. malfeasances
  8. malfeasant
  9. malfeasants
  10. malfeasor
  11. malfeasors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malfeasance (page history and authors); malfeasance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malfeasance (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malfeasance (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malfeasance (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); malfeasance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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