misconducting

Verb

misconduct (third-person singular simple present misconducts, present participle misconducting, simple past and past participle misconducted)

1. (transitive) To mismanage.
2. (reflexive) To behave inappropriately, to misbehave.
   • It had been pointed out […] that in the past enemy aliens misconducting themselves had been returned to the internment camp.1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, Harper Perennal, published 1995, page 224
3. (intransitive, rare) To act improperly.
   • The quartermasters have misconducted, and the government should bear the loss resulting from that misconduct.1869, Ebenezer Peck, “Spear v. United States: Dissenting Opinion”, in Charles C. Nott, Samuel H. Huntington, editors, Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States, at the December Term...

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