malfeasance

unethical behaviour by officials in high office

TRANSLATION

Gesetzesübertretung

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

"Again, this is a case of the many hard-working, ethical people at the bottom at Anderson having to pay for the MALFEASANCE of the few at the top -- in this case, of course, a bunch of Texans in the Houston office."

(Keith Schmitz in FastCompany Magazine, June 2002)

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"Malfeasance" is a phenomenon we're seeing increasingly in the news these days.

The following German words can all be translated by today's word .

Gesetzesübertretung, Dienstvergehen, gesetzwidriges Verhalten, Überschreiten der Befugnisse.

"Malfeasance" is related to "malevolent" = evil, bad

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