malfeasance
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But the skepticism is notable for what it says about the difficulty in building trust in public institutions after so many decades of malfeasance and mismanagement.
One reason is the creation of independent institutions such as an anticorruption prosecutor and the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which investigates malfeasance involving top officials.
He claimed her firing was “for cause,” a term whose precise legal meaning hasn’t been adjudicated but is widely interpreted to connote gross malfeasance or some such offense in office.
It’s an orchestrated hit meant to silence critics, control the narrative and bury whatever corruption, human rights abuses or malfeasance that a healthy free press is meant to expose.
From Los Angeles Times
Business transparency might expose the party or its cronies to scandals, or expose government malfeasance that could inspire popular protest.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
