malfeasance
/mal-FEE-zunss/nounwrongdoing or misconduct, especially by a public official
“The mayor resigned amid charges of financial malfeasance.”
- Synonyms
- misconduct, wrongdoing, corruption
- Antonyms
- integrity, probity
- Root
- mal- (bad)
- Memory hook
- mal (bad) + feasance (doing): official doing gone bad.
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