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- pronunciation:
- mael
fi
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 ns
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
an illegal act or wrongdoing, esp. by a public official.
The governor was charged with malfeasance after it was discovered that she'd spent public funds on a vacation home.- similar words:
- abuse, misconduct
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| related words: |
crime, iniquity, injury, malpractice, misconduct, offense |
adjective + (n.)malfeasance
alleged, corporate, criminal, deliberate, financial, governmental, gross, human, individual, massive, official, original, public, rich, serious, sexual
verb + (n.)malfeasance
accuse, commit, decide, discover, document, eliminate, exercise, fire, involve, prove, uncover
noun + (n.)malfeasance
act,
allegation,
bias,
charge,
claim,
congress,
corporation,
corruption,
disaster,
document,
evidence,
example,
executive,
failure,
form,
fraud,
government,
incompetence,
investigation,
manipulation,
misconduct,
misfeasance,
month,
neglect,
negligence,
nonfeasance,
office,
police,
revelation
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| derivations: |
malfeasant (adj.), malfeasant (n.) |
The word malfeasance
contains the following parts:
mal, male
Latin
root
that means bad, evil, ill
  Example words:
dismal, maladjusted, maladminister, maladroit, malady, malaise, malapropism, malapropos, malaria, malcontent, malediction, malefaction, malefactor, malefic, maleficence, maleficent, malevolent, malfeasance, malformation, malfunction, malice, malicious, malign, malignant, malinger, malnutrition, malocclusion, malodorous, malpractice, malversation
- antonyms:
- ben, bene, bon
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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