misconduct

One way the dirty trick can easily become a criminal matter is through misconduct by the participants in the course of investigation of a dirty trick.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said the state’s system for identifying and responding to potential misconduct functioned as intended.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

A coroner found a practice within HM Treasury of "informal fact-finding" meetings with employees accused of misconduct had no basis in the ministry's policy and posed a risk of future death.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The campaign puts clergy, veterans, teachers and other volunteers at voting stations where they will explain voting rights, try to de-escalate confrontations and document intimidation or other misconduct.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

He didn't have any juvenile criminal history—no prior arrests, no misconduct in school, no delinquencies or prior court appearances.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Neither front has seen much improvement for the Panthers, who took 14 penalties, including six misconducts and another for abuse of officials in the blowout loss.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Both hits resulted in game misconducts, but it didn’t appear further punishment was coming for Lomberg the way it came for Oleksiak.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2022

“However,” she said, “the system that has allowed these misconducts remains.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

"I started skating towards him but I'm about 50 feet away from the guy. I'm getting misconducts for just talking now. Not quite sure what that's about. What are you going to do?"

From Fox News ● Oct. 29, 2021

The criminal who has completed his sentence ought to be deemed to have purged his offence, and has a right to return to the community and obtain work until, if ever, he again misconducts himself.

From The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery

Blenke, who never drank, gambled, smoked, swore, or otherwise misconducted himself, had come to tell Miss Sanford in the best of language that he had urgent need of ten dollars and two days' pass.

From A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King

Over six hundred of these offenders were put in prison, not because they asked for "Votes for Women," but because they deliberately, persistently, and recklessly misconducted themselves.

From The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

“Lady Ongar has never misconducted herself—” said Harry.

From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

That to Colonel Hodges was most strongly worded, calling on him to address Mohhammad Ali in writing to urge him to compensate the sufferers and remove those officers who had misconducted themselves in Damascus.

From Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 by Louis Loewe

It is usual when any member has misconducted himself, to appoint a small committee to visit the offender, to endeavour to convince him of his error and induce him to forsake it. 

From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Caroline Frances Cornwallis

If that's agreed, detectives will then look for evidence that the incident in question saw the suspect "wilfully" neglecting to perform their duty or wilfully misconducting themselves in some other way.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

Tilt, 31, pleaded guilty at Birmingham Crown Court to wilfully misconducting himself in public office.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022

Tilt, of Barley Green, Birmingham, admitted wilfully misconducting himself in public office at Birmingham Crown Court on Friday.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2022

Thus a lot of people are misconducting themselves like this, and would enjoy programming that makes them feel represented in the media.

From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2017

If Charles is misconducting himself, I ought to know—and I will, sooner or later.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 by Various