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misconduct

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


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The Solicitors Regulation Authority has said it will also examine the BBC's findings to see whether there has been misconduct by solicitors or law firms.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Roy has promised to take her experience from a years-long legal battle with Meta to aggressively pursue litigation against corporations and landlords for alleged misconduct that harms the average Angeleno.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 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

In late October, AFP's fact-checkers debunked a likely AI-altered clip that purported to show a former student of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico accusing him of sexual misconduct.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

If Tate was a state officer, Monroe County would have no liability for his misconduct and no recovery would be possible from the State of Alabama.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

That was just Tkachuk’s second point of the series, fewer than his three misconducts.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

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

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

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021

I simply register the inevitable sentence of the husband upon the wife who misconducts herself!

From Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts by Henry Arthur Jones

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

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 F. H. Townsend

The apparent insinuation that he had misconducted himself while on his parole of good behaviour, was one of the things he could least endure.

From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams

You know as well as I do, that unless you had misconducted yourself, you might have been as happy now as you were when I saw you after your return from Bury.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

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 William Chambers

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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