'Malfeasance' definitions:
Definition of 'malfeasance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Wrongful conduct by a public official
Definition of 'Malfeasance'
From: GCIDE
- Malfeasance \Mal*fea"sance\, n. [F. malfaisance, fr. malfaisant injurious, doing ill; mal ill, evil + faisant doing, p. pr. of faire to do. See Malice, Feasible, and cf. Maleficence.] (Law) The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed. [Written also malefeasance.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'malfeasance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- atrocity,
- bad policy,
- befoulment,
- breach,
- conversion,
- corrupt administration,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- criminal tendency,
- criminality,
- criminosis,
- deadly sin,
- debasement,
- defalcation,
- defilement,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- desecration,
- diversion,
- embezzlement,
- enormity,
- error,
- evil,
- evil courses,
- evildoing,
- failure,
- fault,
- feloniousness,
- felony,
- fouling,
- genocide,
- guilty act,
- heavy sin,
- impolicy,
- impropriety,
- indiscretion,
- inexpedience,
- inexpediency,
- inexpiable sin,
- iniquity,
- injury,
- injustice,
- lapse,
- lawbreaking,
- maladministration,
- malefaction,
- malpractice,
- malum,
- malversation,
- minor wrong,
- misadministration,
- misapplication,
- misappropriation,
- misconduct,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misdirection,
- misdoing,
- misemployment,
- misfeasance,
- misgovernment,
- misguidance,
- mishandling,
- mismanagement,
- misprision,
- misprision of treason,
- misrule,
- misusage,
- misuse,
- mortal sin,
- neglect,
- negligence,
- nonfeasance,
- offense,
- omission,
- outrage,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- peculation,
- perversion,
- pilfering,
- pollution,
- poor stewardship,
- positive misprision,
- profanation,
- prostitution,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- slip,
- thou scarlet sin,
- tort,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- unutterable sin,
- venial sin,
- vice,
- viciousness,
- violation,
- wrong,
- wrong conduct,
- wrongdoing