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Definition: Malfeasance |
MalfeasanceNoun1. A wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral malpractices". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "malfeasance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Malfeasance \Mal*fea"sance\, noun. [French expression malfaisance, from malfaisant injurious, doing ill; mal ill, evil faisant doing, present participle of faire to do. See Malice, Feasible, and compare to Maleficence.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: MalfeasanceSynonym: malpractice (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Guilt | Offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Malfeasance |
| English words defined with "malfeasance": Malefeasance, malfeasant ♦ Non-feasance. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "malfeasance": Action Ex Delicto ♦ malicious intent risks. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "malfeasance": maleficence, misfeasance. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Bahamas | The Embassy has received some reports of encounters with biased judges and malfeasance by attorneys. (references) |
China | The 1994 Administrative Procedure Law allows citizens to sue officials for abuse of authority or malfeasance. (references) | |
Nigeria | But the elections were marred by violence and allegations of widespread vote rigging and electoral malfeasance led to legal battles over the results. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | A growing number of persons are using legal recourse against government malfeasance. (references) |
China | The Supreme People's Procuratorate punished 494 officers during the year, 54 of which were criminally responsible for malfeasance. (references) | |
Bolivia | Its powers include the authority to conduct administrative investigations and to censure for malpractice judges at all levels found culpable of malfeasance. (references) | |
Political Economy | Korea | Allegations of malfeasance by the Prosecutor's Office surfaced late in the year. (references) |
Guinea | The ruling PUP and its allies won 32 of the 38 communes, amid opposition charges of electoral fraud and malfeasance. (references) | |
Bahamas | While generally fair, the Bahamian judicial process tends to be much slower than the norm in the United States and the Embassy has received occasional reports of malfeasance on the part of court officials. (references) | |
Political Rights | Papua New Guinea | Such petitions may question actions of the candidate and his supporters or allege malfeasance by the election officials. (references) |
Uganda | During the week of June 11, while addressing an FM radio audience, Museveni accused Winnie Babihuga, incumbent Rukungiri women's M.P. and Besigye supporter, of engaging in election malfeasance, suggesting that she and others could be arrested; Babihuga was not reelected. (references) | |
Cameroon | The 1996 municipal elections were less flawed than other elections held since 1990. Foreign observers considered the elections largely free and fair, having detected few instances of malfeasance during or after the voting; however, opposition parties credibly alleged systematic preelection government manipulation of the registration lists and arbitrary government disqualification of their candidates, especially in the South. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Corporate greed and malfeasance cause innocent people to lose their jobs, their savings, and often their confidence in the American system. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Malfeasance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Malfeasance" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
malfeasance | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "malfeasance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mizori zyrtare, krim (crime, felony, misdeed, offence, villainy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 违法行为. (various references) | |
Czech | zneužití (misusage). (various references) | |
Dutch | kwaadwilligheid (mischief), boosaardigheid (craft, craftiness, cunning, guile, mischief). (various references) | |
Farsi | کارخلاف قانون , شرارت (Depravity, Iniquity, Mischief, Villainy), بدکاری , بدکرداری (Depravity, Misdeed). (various references) | |
Finnish | ilkeämielisyys (malice, mischief, spite). (various references) | |
French | malfaisance (maleficence, malignancy). (various references) | |
German | Vergehen (be about, blame, crime, delinquencies, delinquency, die, die away, elapse, fade, fading, fault, go by, guilt, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, misdoing, offense, pass, pass away, pass by, passing, slip away, swelter, to pass off, wear off). (various references) | |
Greek | παρανομία (illegality, illicitness, unlawfulness), πταίσμα (lapse, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, petty offence), αδικοπραγία (wrongdoing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עבר" (adultery, contravention, crime, infringement, offence, sin, transgression, trespass). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gonosztett (deed, foul deed, maleficence, misdoing). (various references) | |
Italian | misfatto (crime, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, misdoing), azione dannosa (mischief). (various references) | |
Manx | drogh-aghtys oikoil. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alfeasancemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | malevolente, maleficência (mischief), prevaricação (evil, forfeit, maladroit, prevaricator). (various references) | |
Russian | злодеяние (misdeed, misdoing), должностное преступление (misconduct). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | malverzacija (malversation), prekršaj (breach, delict, foul, infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offense, violation). (various references) | |
Spanish | crimen (crime, delinquency, felony, misdeed, offence, offense). (various references) | |
Swedish | ondskefullhet (mischief), ondska (evil, evilness, evils, malignity, mischief, perversity, spite, wickedness), förbrytelse (crime, offence), ämbetsbrott. (various references) | |
Turkish | suistimal (abuse, misappropriation, misuse), kötüye kullanma (abuse, deceit, delinquency, embezzlement, exploitation, malversation, misuse), kötülük (badness, blackness, darkness, devilry, disservice, enormity, evil, harm, iniquity, malice, malignity, misdeed, misdoing, perversity, spitefulness, vice, viciousness, villainy, wickedness). (various references) | |
Ukranian | вчинення неправомірної дії, лиходійство (villainy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | h nh động bất lương (rascality). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | facere. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | malfaisance. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "malfeasance": malfeasances. (additional references) | |
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"Malfeasance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: malfeasauce, malfeasence, malfeisance, malfesance. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "malfeasance" (pronounced ma'lfē"zuns) |
| 6 | -f ē" z u n s | Defeasance. |
| 4 | -z u n s | cognizance, omnipresence, presence, recognizance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-e-f-l-m-n-s" | |
-3 letters: almanacs, enflames, feasance, manacles. | |
-4 letters: almanac, amesace, anlaces, cleanse, enamels, enfaces, enflame, enlaces, females, flamens, manacle, menaces, scalene. | |
-5 letters: aflame, aneles, anlace, calesa, camels, canals, cleans, enamel, encase, enemas, enface, enlace, faecal, faeces, faenas, falces, female, fences, flamen, flames, flanes, fleams, flense, lances, lemans, macles, measle, menace, mensae, mensal, mescal, salaam, seaman, seamen, seance, seneca. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-e-e-f-l-m-n-s" | |
+1 letter: malfeasances. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6C 66 65 61 73 61 6E 63 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101100 01100110 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a l f e a s a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006C 0066 0065 0061 0073 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767787271678567806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Translations: Ancient 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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