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misconduct

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


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

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

The tribunal concluded in a ruling last month that Rahman's misconduct was "fundamentally incompatible with continued registration" and erased him from the medical register allowing him to work as a doctor.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

Carvalho has not been charged with wrongdoing and denies any misconduct in connection with that project or anything else.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

The hearing comes as Downtown LA Law Group, or DTLA, faces allegations of attorney misconduct in two significant cases moving through California courts.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

Byrne was livid at this additional evidence of government misconduct.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

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

From Seattle Times Apr. 4, 2024

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

"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

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

From Marion Fay by Trollope, Anthony

They were shamefully treated; and it is recorded that the Oxford scholars hissed and howled and groaned, and misconducted themselves in an anything but a scholarly way. 

From A Child's History of England by Townsend, F. H.

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

And then, though he would have gone to a desert island with his wife, had such exile been necessary for her protection, he did believe that she had misconducted herself.

From Is He Popenjoy? by Trollope, Anthony

He now said he thought Mrs. Burroughs had misconducted herself, and he could not order her husband to take her home again. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles

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

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 Cather, Willa Sibert




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