Malfeasance (noun)
mal-fee-zuns
Wrongdoing, especially (US) by a public official.
Late 17th century: from Anglo-Norman French malfaisance, from mal- ‘evil’ + Old French faisance ‘activity’. Compare with misfeasance.
Example sentences
“Journalists are the last defence against wrongdoing and malfeasance.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
