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misconduct

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


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This led to a deeper look into other factors contributing to wrongful convictions, including prosecutorial misconduct and mistaken eyewitness identifications, especially those made by witnesses with different racial backgrounds from the suspects.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

“Gathering evidence over days or even weeks to document ongoing misconduct is one thing. Doing so over many months raises different legal and ethical questions.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 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 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

Michael and I put a petition together that asserted all of these claims, including police and prosecutorial misconduct, and filed it in the Monroe County Circuit Court.

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

“However,” she said, “the system that has allowed these misconducts remains.”

From New York Times Apr. 29, 2022

Skinner and Martin received minors for roughing, while Pelech and Ross Johnston were issued 10-minute misconducts.

From Seattle Times Apr. 23, 2022

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

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 Jones, Henry Arthur

In the first place, she is the daughter of people who flagrantly misconducted themselves--that apparently does her no harm.

From Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

"Nechutes has misconducted himself," she objected, "and I would not be left alone with him."

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

She has never misconducted herself; and what is more, she has been cruelly used since she came home.”

From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony

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

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 Cobbold, Richard

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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