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misconduct

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


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Notwithstanding "serious failures" in the process that led to the killings, "the decisions of the commanders did not raise reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct," the IDF said.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Azari said in April that he denied all allegations of sexual misconduct and assault and would pursue “every legal remedy” against those making the claims.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Technology executive Mark Hurd left Hewlett-Packard in 2010 amid claims of misconduct involving a relationship with a female contractor.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

It confirmed a Supreme Court justice facing sexual misconduct allegations.

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

State governments are broadly shielded from recovery for their employees' misconduct unless the employee works for an agency that can be sued.

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

Both hits resulted in game misconducts, but it didn’t appear further punishment was coming for Lomberg the way it came for Oleksiak.

From Seattle Times Dec. 13, 2022

“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 Anthony Trollope

I shouldn’t have got in to-night, but the misconducted body’s asleep, though I’ll say it’s the first time I saw him sleeping these four days.

From We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

T.—Is probably Tallien, who had misconducted himself in Egypt.

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall

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 Anthony Trollope

That to Colonel Hodges was most strongly worded, calling on him to address Mohhammad Ali in writing to urge him to compensate the sufferers and remove those officers who had misconducted themselves in Damascus.

From Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 by Louis Loewe

The practice of compelling girls who had misconducted themselves to stand in church for three Sundays was only given up at Pickering in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.

From The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home

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

What balderdash has been spoken and written about poor Jack everlastingly misconducting himself!

From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Walter Runciman




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