[每日] malfeasance (n) 瀆職
Word of the Day (Monday October 20, 2008)
malfeasance \mal-FEE-zuhn(t)s\, noun:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/014Uf
Wrongdoing, misconduct, or misbehavior, especially by a public
official.
But more often than not the same board members who were removed
by the chancellor for malfeasance subsequently manage to get
reelected in a political process that defies any form of
accountability.
-- Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti, New Schools for a New
Century
Cagney family conjecture was that Grandpop Nelson, with the
temper of a dozen Furies, had likely committed some malfeasance
in his native town forcing him to change his name when he left.
-- John McCabe, Cagney
Malfeasance is derived from Old French malfaisant, present
participle of malfaire, "to do evil," from Latin malefacere,
from male, "badly" + facere, "to do."
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