How to Use malfeasance in a Sentence

malfeasance

noun
  • The investigation has uncovered evidence of corporate malfeasance.
  • New York is the poster child for malfeasance.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2026
  • And Grant was more of the malfeasance of the people around him.
    — James Brown, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2022
  • But proving malfeasance may be tough in an age without all of those benchmarks.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Recorde chose to dispute it with the Earl, filing a suit of malfeasance against him.
    — Esther Inglis-Arkell, Ars Technica, 9 July 2017
  • Recalls should be reserved for malfeasance, not voting for bad bills.
    — Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Brown has been charged with second-degree battery and malfeasance charges.
    — Fox News, 16 Dec. 2020
  • And some of those rights-of-way have been blocked, either by neglect or malfeasance from abutters.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 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
  • He was forced to testify in front of the government about his client's malfeasance.
    — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The most recent example of this malfeasance is playing out around us.
    — Mike Pompeo and Miles Yu, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2021
  • Ponzi scheme and willfully turned a blind eye to the financial malfeasance.
    — Christian Red, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
  • However, in an ironic twist, those same thieves are using this change for one last burst of malfeasance.
    — Paul Sisson, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • That’s not corporate feasance, that’s malfeasance to have a board that knows nothing about any of this.
    — Nico Savidge, The Mercury News, 3 June 2019
  • 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
  • York faces one charge of negligent homicide and 10 counts of malfeasance.
    — Amanda Su, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Brock wrote in a memo to the judge that Green's malfeasance came to light after sheriff's Sgt.
    — Aimee Green, OregonLive.com, 29 June 2017
  • In this case, the effects of corporate greed and malfeasance could wreak havoc on a global scale.
    — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The malfeasance charge covers a range of Ravnsborg's actions.
    — Fox News, 21 June 2022
  • The officer was found guilty Thursday of malfeasance in office and two counts of theft of a firearm.
    — Robert Rhoden, nola.com, 14 June 2019
  • But their statements about alleged malfeasance differed.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • To do otherwise would have been malpractice and malfeasance.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
  • He's sued the city at seven times in the last two years alone, alleging all manner of malfeasance, with no success.
    — Bill Turque, kansascity, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Union Parish Deputy Christopher Harpin was charged with three counts of malfeasance.
    — Deena Zaru, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Many of the recipients have a history of fraud and malfeasance.
    — Michael Braga, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • But the virus was not the cause of a crisis rooted in decades of corruption, malfeasance and negligence.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • The platform has broken major stories about malfeasance in high and low places in Nigeria.
    — Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo, Quartz Africa, 16 Nov. 2019
  • This latest defense of his Ukraine scheme flies in the face of years spent enabling the malfeasance of kleptocrats.
    — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Continuing the malfeasance, Pagano opted to split the first-team reps this week at practice.
    — Jonathan Jones, SI.com, 15 Sep. 2017

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