misconduct
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Tyrrell, of Meltham, West Yorkshire, has admitted misconduct in public office.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
When approached by BBC Sport, British Cycling declined to comment on allegations first reported by The Times, external it was because of a misconduct investigation.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Police are investigating 18 alleged cases of misconduct within their ranks.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Only after more than two years of dithering did the court fire Mr. Khan for “serious misconduct and serious breach of duty.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I was a twenty-eight-year-old lawyer who had worked on police misconduct cases.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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
Skinner and Martin received minors for roughing, while Pelech and Ross Johnston were issued 10-minute misconducts.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 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
“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
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
He had also misconducted himself in a dispute with the Lord Chancellor respecting injunctions; moreover, he had insulted the king when called before him in the case of commendams.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
He misconducted himself gravely in England and was sent abroad.
From A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta by Guy Boothby
These Polish officers misconducted themselves sadly, and the people murmured sore.
From Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton by Anonymous
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
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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