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misconduct

[mis-kon-duhkt, mis-kuhn-duhkt] / mɪsˈkɒn dʌkt, ˌmɪs kənˈdʌkt /


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Ball and Gounaud worked for the FBI’s elite anti-corruption unit known as CR-15, which specialized in investigating misconduct by elected officials.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

The student and her family have not made any public statements on the alleged misconduct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Jackson, a former state lawmaker, was chosen by Maine Democratic Party delegates to run in place of Platner, who dropped out in July after sexual misconduct allegations against him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

When police tried to arrest Clark, the misconduct hearing was told things "take a turn", and the suspect ended up on the ground.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

She hadn't dealt with the police much around the Morrison murder and didn't have useful information pointing to their misconduct, aside from being able to show how they were provoked by her relationship with Walter.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Florida was whistled for 14 penalties, including two misconducts by Tkachuk, who insisted the Panthers are simply playing their brand of physical hockey.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

"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

“Those misconducts, they are just unacceptable,” Rojas said of the allegations against Ellis.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021

Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby and coach Mike Sullivan were among a group that earned 10-minute misconducts following a dust-up between both sides late in the third period.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2019

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

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

These Polish officers misconducted themselves sadly, and the people murmured sore.

From Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous

I shouldn’t have got in to-night, but the misconducted body’s asleep, though I’ll say it’s the first time I saw him sleeping these four days.

From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

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

The British force remained in Cabool two years, where officers and men alike misconducted themselves, as soldiers always do in a conquered country.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 425 Volume 17, New Series, February 21, 1852 by William Chambers

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

Down near the end of the line he had seen one of his own men misconducting himself, snivelling and crying like a baby,—a fine husky boy of eighteen who had never given any trouble.

From One of Ours by Willa Sibert Cather




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