malpractice

Noun

malpractice (countable and uncountable, plural malpractices)

1. The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.
2. Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.
   • When such a breakdown occurs there must be a full examination of the corruption that has been committed, and the leaders involved in malpractices must be encouraged to give a full account of what took place.2007, Stephen Prosser, To Be a Servant-Leader
   • A national-security budget where we spend 20 times as much money on the military and intelligence agencies as we do on diplomacy, democracy promotion, and smart power, is foreign-policy malpractice in the modern world.2019 October 7, Chris Murphy, “How to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work”, in The Atlantic