Malfeasance (Noun)
Meaning
Wrongful conduct by a public official.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- The city's comptroller was charged with malfeasance after an investigation revealed he had been embezzling public funds to pay for his personal vacations.
- The judge was impeached due to malfeasance for taking bribes from lawyers and dismissing charges against his friends and acquaintances.
- The corruption probe revealed widespread malfeasance within the government, with multiple officials found to have been taking kickbacks and embezzling state funds.
- The ethics commission cited malfeasance on the part of the senator for failing to disclose her conflicts of interest in her vote on the corporate tax breaks bill.
- The new district attorney campaigned on rooting out malfeasance within the police department and securing convictions for the corrupt officers involved.