malfeasance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Wrongdoing. countable,uncountable
    — 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. Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official and causing damage. countable,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

malfeasances plural

词汇关系

相关词
feasance malefactor maleficence maleficent malfeasant

词源

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