'Misfeasance' definitions:
Definition of 'misfeasance'
(from WordNet)
noun
Doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner
Definition of 'Misfeasance'
From: GCIDE
- Misfeasance \Mis*fea"sance\, n. [OF. pref. mes- wrong (L. minus less) + faisance doing, fr. faire to do, L. facere. Cf. Malfeasance.] (Law) A trespass; a wrong arising from an overt act; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do. --Bouvier. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'misfeasance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abuse,
- abuse of office,
- atrocity,
- bad policy,
- befoulment,
- breach,
- conversion,
- corrupt administration,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- criminal tendency,
- criminality,
- criminosis,
- deadly sin,
- debasement,
- defalcation,
- defectiveness,
- defilement,
- delinquency,
- delusion,
- dereliction,
- desecration,
- deviancy,
- distortion,
- diversion,
- embezzlement,
- enormity,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- evil,
- evil courses,
- evildoing,
- failure,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- feloniousness,
- felony,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- fouling,
- genocide,
- guilty act,
- hamartia,
- heavy sin,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- illusion,
- impolicy,
- impropriety,
- indiscretion,
- inexpedience,
- inexpediency,
- inexpiable sin,
- iniquity,
- injury,
- injustice,
- lapse,
- lawbreaking,
- maladministration,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malpractice,
- malum,
- malversation,
- minor wrong,
- misadministration,
- misapplication,
- misappropriation,
- misconduct,
- misconstruction,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misdirection,
- misdoing,
- misemployment,
- misgovernment,
- misguidance,
- mishandling,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- 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,
- self-contradiction,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- sinfulness,
- slip,
- thou scarlet sin,
- tort,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- unutterable sin,
- venial sin,
- vice,
- viciousness,
- violation,
- wrong,
- wrong conduct,
- wrongdoing,
- wrongness