misconduct

The police have the right "investigatory powers and resources" to handle the case, they rule, with individual MI5 officers now potentially facing investigation for misconduct in public office.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

Attorneys for Downtown LA Law Group said in court Thursday that the firm plans to drop out of litigation over the Chiquita Canyon landfill amid allegations of misconduct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

He had recently asked me to help him with an Alabama civil rights case involving law enforcement misconduct.

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

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

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

Skinner and Martin received minors for roughing, while Pelech and Ross Johnston were issued 10-minute misconducts.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 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

Speaking of the Monroe Doctrine, he said, "We do not guarantee any state against punishment, if it misconducts itself."

From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland

The court considers you have grossly misconducted yourself, and refuses to grant you license to perform.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 by Various

I myself only saw Lady Rose once, so far as I remember, before she misconducted herself.

From Lady Rose's Daughter by Mrs. Humphry Ward

And if she were to leave it, why should she go with a woman that has misconducted herself?”

From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

Not that I have the vaguest notion as to how I have misconducted myself.

From Rossmoyne by Unknown

It would be quite impossible for any one present to have misconducted himself in the manner in which the holder of those letters, Mr. Reynolds, accuses you of having done.

From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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