How to Use malfeasance in a Sentence

malfeasance

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  • The investigation has uncovered evidence of corporate malfeasance.
  • And Grant was more of the malfeasance of the people around him.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Our country can’t take much more of the Biden malfeasance.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Union Parish Deputy Christopher Harpin was charged with three counts of malfeasance.
    — Deena Zaru, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • All of which brings us to Hertz, which this week joined the ranks of those who’ve gotten away with egregious malfeasance.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Hikers, all is not lost because the alright people take the high road and do the grunt work of fixing the malfeasance of the few.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The malfeasance charge covers a range of Ravnsborg's actions.
    — Fox News, 21 June 2022
  • And some of those rights-of-way have been blocked, either by neglect or malfeasance from abutters.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The accounts are building a record of malfeasance on the behalf of the former President.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 29 June 2021
  • York faces one charge of negligent homicide and 10 counts of malfeasance.
    — Amanda Su, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The latest chapter of Our Corrupt Supreme Court comes in an already bursting-at-the-seams book of malfeasance.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • Ponzi scheme and willfully turned a blind eye to the financial malfeasance.
    — Christian Red, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • But the virus was not the cause of a crisis rooted in decades of corruption, malfeasance and negligence.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • But proving malfeasance may be tough in an age without all of those benchmarks.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Aug. 2021
  • With thousands of votes still to be counted, there had been no suggestion of any malfeasance.
    — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 18 May 2022
  • The charges range from negligent homicide to malfeasance.
    — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Nearly a third was lost to malfeasance, former allies of the government have told the Journal.
    — Kejal Vyas, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2020
  • It was passed into law as part of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which sought to clamp down on corporate malfeasance.
    — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Many Puerto Ricans have called for a probe into the cronyism and potential malfeasance that led to the debt being piled up over the years.
    — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Brown has been charged with second-degree battery and malfeasance charges.
    — Fox News, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Jesse Barcelona was charged with obstruction of justice, malfeasance in office and theft, Paul said.
    — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • That led deputies to book Virginia Marie Bays, 61, with theft, malfeasance and injuring public records.
    — Sara Pagones | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • But, really, how much of the Eagles' problems were the product of the Cowboys' defense or Wentz’s malfeasance?
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The e-mails were cherry-picked by deniers for sound bites that, when taken out of context, seemed to point to malfeasance by scientists.
    — Stephan Lewandowsky, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2022
  • But this isn’t a case of grand conspiracy, malfeasance or rigged machines.
    — María Méndez, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Injuries and various malfeasance — including a day in 2017 when Harvey failed to show up for a game — brought a rapid end to his prime.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 12 May 2021
  • In fact, there is no evidence of widespread fraud or malfeasance in elections.
    — Alexandra Berzon, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2022
  • York was charged with negligent homicide and 10 counts of malfeasance in office.
    — Jim Mustian, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Then there was the corruption scandal that rocked the island's government five years ago, again revealing malfeasance and improprieties.
    — Antonio Fins, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
  • According to a Vox report, the malfeasance allegations against Gunn are largely unfounded.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Aug. 2024

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