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misconduct

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


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In 2023, a number of civil lawsuits were brought against Harvard alleging the university ignored Lodge's misconduct for several years until he was indicted.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Mayor Karen Bass and even some of his own prosecutors criticizing the filing as “insane” and a deterrent for police looking to expose corruption and misconduct within their ranks.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 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

I knew immediately what I would do: prepare a countersuit charging everyone from the lieutenant all the way up to the minister of justice with misconduct.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

It also caused a scrum that resulted in six penalties, including two unsportsmanlike penalties and two misconducts.

From Seattle Times Jun. 10, 2023

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

“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

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

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

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall

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

His defense was an alibi, an attempt, that is, to prove that he was elsewhere on the night when he was alleged to have misconducted himself at Rome.

From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church

“Lady Ongar has never misconducted herself—” said Harry.

From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

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

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

A sailor misconducting himself on the voyage, has at least two months' reflection in the jail of Williamstown, commencing immediately upon his arrival.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various




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