How to Use malpractice in a Sentence

malpractice

noun
Definition of malpracticenext
Synonyms for malpracticenext
  • Doctors need to have malpractice insurance to protect themselves against lawsuits.
  • From the minute the raid occurred, Trump has been trying to paint the seizure as the real malpractice at hand.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Gregory was startled at the news, as was the judge in his malpractice suit against Wood.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
  • The press tends to gloss over the dog whistles, but years of this malpractice has led to the whistles becoming as loud as bullhorns.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 16 May 2022
  • In the absence of any actionable malpractice, those who have lost out — adults all — will be left to pay the price of their gambling.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Lawyers in the malpractice case were arguing over whether the claims were barred by the statute of limitations.
    — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2021
  • Varughese and Sun are both defendants in the malpractice case.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 23 June 2023
  • The suit charges the doctors involved with malpractice and lack of informed consent.
    — Jackson Walker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Not to file a protective refund claim would, in my mind, be malpractice.
    — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • That probe turned up more malpractice and a decision to dismiss charges that never should have been brought.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
  • That's like campaign malpractice to run an ad two years before a campaign.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 22 May 2024
  • To some pundits, the early dismissals of the lab thesis now look like media malpractice.
    — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
  • The patient went on the make a moderate recovery but became one of the first high-profile malpractice cases in the state.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Far from being acts of compassion, these would be acts of malpractice.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The lessons of the Blum case are not limited to the tax treatment of legal malpractice recoveries.
    — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • To hear Robert White tell it, the steady rise in fat malpractice payouts won’t inspire public trust in the medical system.
    — Glen Luke Flanagan, Fortune, 5 July 2024
  • Aid Access has found a malpractice carrier who would cover them, one of the doctors says.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Physicians, therefore, who use impure virus ought to be held to the strictest legal account for malpractice.
    — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2021
  • At least 18 other patients have sued Chiu alleging malpractice in the last two decades.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
  • More to the point, the censure was political malpractice.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Ray filed a civil suit against Peter Hackett in 2012 for wrongful death and malpractice.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 14 July 2023
  • The board records note that Roberts, who previously practiced in Colorado, was the subject of a malpractice lawsuit in that state.
    — oregonlive, 4 Mar. 2021
  • One sticking point for the committee has been if, or how, to publicize malpractice claims settled out of court.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The caller had a suspicious accent and said there were malpractice claims against the doctor and he may be arrested.
    — cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Rez Dogs’ exclusion is straight-up malpractice, the kind of snub that (further) discredits the Emmys.
    — Time, 12 July 2023
  • After a query about the injection to one of the pharmacy’s owners, a medical-malpractice lawyer sent an email.
    — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The killer was a homeless electrician who had lost a medical malpractice suit in her courtroom.
    — Jessica Gresko, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022
  • Many inheritances have been wiped out by IRS liens, malpractice claims and other risks that all could have been avoided with a simple trust.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • But SNTs also can be set up in a pinch, as first-party trusts, often to hold money from lawsuit settlements in medical malpractice cases.
    — Hannah Frances Johansson, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
  • He was helped in no small measure by a flagrant case of political malpractice, when Metzenbaum accused the astronaut and war hero of never having held a real job.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 30 July 2024

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