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Malfeasance N Wrongdoing Public Official Faced Formal Scrutiny

Word malfeasance
Definition n. Wrongdoing by a public official.
Sentence All officials faced formal scrutiny on leaving office, so that they could be punished for corruption or malfeasance while in office.
Source On Justice, Power, and Human Nature, selections from Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesian War, introduction, p. xiii

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