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misconduct

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


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Barrera was not accused of sexual misconduct but was swept out of office alongside Kasparian in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

The misconduct hearing was played several clips of police body-worn camera footage, as well as mobile phone video recorded by onlookers.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

Rockstar has denied those allegations at the employment tribunal in Glasgow and alleges workers were sacked for "gross misconduct" following the sharing of confidential information in an online forum.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Chavez-DeRemer resigned in April—a little more than a year into the job—amid growing reports of workplace misconduct.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

I turned the other police misconduct cases over to other lawyers because my death penalty docket was so full.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

It also caused a scrum that resulted in six penalties, including two unsportsmanlike penalties and two misconducts.

From Seattle Times Jun. 10, 2023

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

“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

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 Alfred John Church

He misconducted himself gravely in England and was sent abroad.

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

"Nechutes has misconducted himself," she objected, "and I would not be left alone with him."

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller

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

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

From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

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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