malversation

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This was shown by one of the framers of the impeachment provision, James Wilson, who said that what he had in mind was misbehavior, or what he called "malversation."

From Time Magazine Archive

During a brief job at a large corporation, he impersonates a vice president and summarily fires those who seem unhappy in their work, He is finally caught and dismissed for "malversation of coffee break."

From Time Magazine Archive

The Inspector General Act was designed to protect patriotic whistle-blowers who seek to reveal malversation in government.

From Time Magazine Archive

After guarding thus, as they conceived, against malversation, but in effect rather protecting their posterity than themselves, the commons prolonged the last imposition on wool and leather for another year.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

Griffenfeldt, who was charged with simony, bribery, oath-breaking, malversation and l�se-majest�, conducted his own defence under every imaginable difficulty.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various