We found 1 definitions of misconducted from 1 different sources.
NounPlural: misconducts |
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misconduct - bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf | ||
management, direction the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?" | ||
misconduct - activity that transgresses moral or civil law; "he denied any wrongdoing" | ||
wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, actus reus | ||
activity any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" | ||
brutalisation, brutalization an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | ||
trespass, usurpation, encroachment, intrusion, violation entry to another's property without right or permission | ||
civil wrong, tort (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought | ||
malversation misconduct in public office | ||
misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed improper or wicked or immoral behavior | ||
dereliction willful negligence | ||
malfeasance wrongful conduct by a public official | ||
misfeasance doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | ||
malpractice a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral malpractices" | ||
malpractice a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral malpractices" | ||
perversion the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice" | ||
injury wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted | ||
injury wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted | ||
injustice, shabbiness, iniquity, unfairness an unjust act | ||
infliction an act causing pain or damage | ||
evildoing, transgression the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit | ||
knavery, dishonesty lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | ||
misrepresentation, falsification a misleading falsehood | ||
champerty an unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded; "soliciting personal injury cases may constitute champerty" | ||
criminal maintenance, maintenance the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community; "unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit" |