How to Use malfeasance in a Sentence

malfeasance

noun

• The investigation has uncovered evidence of corporate malfeasance.
• And Grant was more of the malfeasance of the people around him.
  — James Brown, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2022
• Our country can’t take much more of the Biden malfeasance.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2024
• Recorde chose to dispute it with the Earl, filing a suit of malfeasance against him.
  — Esther Inglis-Arkell, Ars Technica, 9 July 2017
• He is charged with three counts of malfeasance in office.
  — Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• Brock wrote in a memo to the judge that Green's malfeasance came to light after sheriff's Sgt.
  — Aimee Green, OregonLive.com, 29 June 2017
• Union Parish Deputy Christopher Harpin was charged with three counts of malfeasance.
  — Deena Zaru, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2023
• All of which brings us to Hertz, which this week joined the ranks of those who’ve gotten away with egregious malfeasance.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 10 Dec. 2022
• Hikers, all is not lost because the alright people take the high road and do the grunt work of fixing the malfeasance of the few.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2022
• The officer was found guilty Thursday of malfeasance in office and two counts of theft of a firearm.
  — Robert Rhoden, nola.com, 14 June 2019
• The malfeasance charge covers a range of Ravnsborg's actions.
  — Fox News, 21 June 2022
• As rivalries flare, tales of malfeasance tend to come out.
  — The Economist, 30 Nov. 2019
• And some of those rights-of-way have been blocked, either by neglect or malfeasance from abutters.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2021
• Trump did not fail you or the country -- your frustrations should be directed at the malfeasance of the DNC.
  — Houston Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2018
• He was forced to testify in front of the government about his client's malfeasance.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
• This latest defense of his Ukraine scheme flies in the face of years spent enabling the malfeasance of kleptocrats.
  — Casey Michel, The New Republic, 31 Oct. 2019
• The accounts are building a record of malfeasance on the behalf of the former President.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 29 June 2021
• York faces one charge of negligent homicide and 10 counts of malfeasance.
  — Amanda Su, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2022
• The latest chapter of Our Corrupt Supreme Court comes in an already bursting-at-the-seams book of malfeasance.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• That’s not corporate feasance, that’s malfeasance to have a board that knows nothing about any of this.
  — Nico Savidge, The Mercury News, 3 June 2019
• Ponzi scheme and willfully turned a blind eye to the financial malfeasance.
  — Christian Red, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2021
• But the virus was not the cause of a crisis rooted in decades of corruption, malfeasance and negligence.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• But proving malfeasance may be tough in an age without all of those benchmarks.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Aug. 2021
• With thousands of votes still to be counted, there had been no suggestion of any malfeasance.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 18 May 2022
• The charges range from negligent homicide to malfeasance.
  — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
• He's sued the city at seven times in the last two years alone, alleging all manner of malfeasance, with no success.
  — Bill Turque, kansascity, 13 Mar. 2018
• In this case, the effects of corporate greed and malfeasance could wreak havoc on a global scale.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2020
• PR defense’ to his serious fraud and malfeasance claims against them.
  — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2017
• Between free agency, the NFL draft, trades, cuts, off-the-field malfeasance, etc., much will impact player values before next summer’s fantasy drafts.
  — Brandon Funston, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
• Enron, the company synonymous with early 2000s corporate malfeasance, is back — but as what is anyone's guess.
  — Ben Berkowitz, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Mar 2025