The accountant who stole from the firm went to jail for corporate malfeasance.
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Malfeasance
//ˌmælˈfiːzəns//
Synonyms for "malfeasance" (124 found)
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29 translations across 8 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- злосторство noun (wrongdoing)
- злоупотреба noun (misconduct doing damage)
Czech
4 entries- přestoupení n zákona noun (wrongdoing)
- sabotáž noun (misconduct doing damage)
- trestný čin noun (wrongdoing)
- zločin noun (wrongdoing)
Finnish
3 entries- pahanteko noun (wrongdoing)
- sabotaasi noun (misconduct doing damage)
- virkarikos noun (misconduct doing damage)
German
4 entries- (böswilliges) Dienstvergehen noun (misconduct doing damage)
- Sabotage noun (misconduct doing damage)
- Sabotageakt noun (misconduct doing damage)
- Schandtat noun (wrongdoing)
Portuguese
1 entries- prevaricação noun (misconduct doing damage)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- olc noun (wrongdoing)
- sabotàis noun (misconduct doing damage)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- malverzacija noun (wrongdoing)
- zloporaba noun (misconduct doing damage)
- zloupotreba noun (misconduct doing damage)
Spanish
4 entries- abuso de autoridad noun (misconduct doing damage)
- infracción noun (wrongdoing)
- maldad noun (wrongdoing)
- maleficencia noun (wrongdoing)
Sample sentences
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The Catalan politicians are accused of disobedience, embezzlement, and malfeasance.
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An investigative committee has accused 300 organizations, individuals and some army officials of financial malfeasance totaling an estimated $241 million in fraud and overpayments of contracts.
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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.
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