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misconduct

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


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Some critics said the report failed to answer basic questions, such as how many less-lethal rounds were fired or how many officers were disciplined for misconduct.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

This led to a deeper look into other factors contributing to wrongful convictions, including prosecutorial misconduct and mistaken eyewitness identifications, especially those made by witnesses with different racial backgrounds from the suspects.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

The day after the Douyin post appeared, the party’s top internal watchdog announced that Zhou was under investigation for alleged severe misconduct.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

“Gathering evidence over days or even weeks to document ongoing misconduct is one thing. Doing so over many months raises different legal and ethical questions.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Senator Simpson knew firsthand that you cannot judge a person's full potential by his juvenile misconduct.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

Four players from each team received game misconducts 2 seconds into the game.

From Seattle Times Apr. 4, 2024

They took four penalties in the first 50-plus minutes of the game and then many more, including three misconducts, in a late scuffle.

From Washington Times Jun. 4, 2023

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

From New York Times Apr. 29, 2022

All three Florida goals were of the gritty variety from inside the crease, on a night where tempers flared with 19 penalties — four of them misconducts.

From Fox News Mar. 4, 2022

"It is impossible that any one should be happy who misconducts herself."

From Marion Fay by Anthony Trollope

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

I asked him what would happen if this nominated General misconducted himself in any way, or proved unsuitable, or lost his reason.

From Regeneration by Henry Rider Haggard

He had also misconducted himself in a dispute with the Lord Chancellor respecting injunctions; moreover, he had insulted the king when called before him in the case of commendams.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

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

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

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

He, as usual, is misconducting himself to quite a remarkable degree.

From The Hoyden by Duchess




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