misfeasance
- n doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner
- Thousands of hardworking people lost their jobs and homes as a result of the incredible nonfeasance, misfeasance and probably malfeasance of Christopher Cox and friends.
- Another story submitted to the Polk judges was an investigative report by Sinclair raising the possibility of misfeasance in the murder of a prisoner five years ago.
- While her trial pended, friends and foes of women-in-politics joined in the hope that her sex would not be allowed to alter judgment upon her; that "misfeasance, malfeasance and .