nonfeasance
Example Sentences
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“The only question that remains is whether this is nonfeasance or malfeasance,” he said.
From Washington Times • Jul. 29, 2022
Mostly, they stood aside while the hard hats ran amok; examples of their nonfeasance abound.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2020
This Gil was incredibly easy to work for, to the point of complete nonfeasance.
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2015
But what have New Yorkers been if not blindsided by incessant malfeasance and nonfeasance in the state capital?
From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2010
The neglect which occasioned the damage might be a mere omission, and what was there akin to trespass in a nonfeasance to sustain the analogy upon which trespass on the case was founded?
From The Common Law by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
