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misconduct

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


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Hochman said Flores should have reported his colleagues’ misconduct to internal affairs or the LAPD’s inspector general.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

It added that there remained "a number of ongoing complaints regarding academic misconduct".

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

His popularity has been hit by overlapping misconduct investigations into his wife, brother and Socialist party officials, who all deny wrongdoing.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has been advised to stay away from the club's home matches in the wake of a BBC Panorama and Times investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Michael and I put a petition together that asserted all of these claims, including police and prosecutorial misconduct, and filed it in the Monroe County Circuit Court.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

Calgary’s Rasmus Andersson and Dallas’s John Klingberg were given game misconducts for fighting at the buzzer.

From Seattle Times May 3, 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

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

From New York Times Feb. 17, 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 Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)

The Indian war they alleged was misconducted, and unnecessarily prolonged for the purposes of expending the public money, and of affording a pretext for augmenting the military establishment, and increasing the revenue.

From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by Marshall, John

In the first place, she is the daughter of people who flagrantly misconducted themselves--that apparently does her no harm.

From Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

His defense was an alibi, an attempt, that is, to prove that he was elsewhere on the night when he was alleged to have misconducted himself at Rome.

From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Church, Alfred John

He misconducted himself gravely in England and was sent abroad.

From A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta by Boothby, Guy

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 Chambers, William

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




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