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語源

From Old French malfaisance, derived from malfaire, maufaire (“to do evil”), from Latin malefaciō (“to do evil”), from male (“evilly”) + faciō (“to do, make”).

発音

• IPA: /ˌmælˈfiːzəns/
• ハイフネーション: mal‧fea‧sance

名詞

malfeasance (countable and uncountable, plural malfeasances)

1. Wrongdoing.

   Synonyms: misconduct, misdoing; see also Thesaurus:misdeed

   • 2024 August 14, Anna Mulrine Grobe, “US weapons help Ukraine advance. Will concerns about corruption put that at risk?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     For starters, back-burnering malfeasance, usually in the form of graft, risks repeating the kind of disastrous mistakes that the United States made in Afghanistan.

2. (law) Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official and causing damage.

   Coordinate terms: misfeasance, nonfeasance

   • 2023 December 9, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, Mike Isaac, Karen Weise, “Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     By then, Mr. Altman had gathered more allies. Mr. Nadella, now confident that Mr. Altman was not guilty of malfeasance, threw Microsoft’s weight behind him.

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