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malfeasance

nounCommon GRE wordMore M words

wrongdoing, especially misconduct by a public official

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Malfeasance in a sentence

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The audit uncovered widespread malfeasance among senior administrators.

Synonyms
misconductwrongdoingimproprietycorruption
Antonyms
integrityrectitude

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Verbal · Text Completion

The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Malfeasance (noun) means wrongdoing, especially misconduct by a public official
Here is malfeasance used in an example sentence: "The audit uncovered widespread malfeasance among senior administrators."
Common synonyms for malfeasance include misconduct, wrongdoing, impropriety, corruption.
Antonyms of malfeasance include integrity, rectitude.
Malfeasance is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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