misconduct

1. 1.

   bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf

   Broadermanagement
2. 2.

   activity that transgresses moral or civil law

   “he denied any wrongdoing”

   Synonymswrongdoingwrongful conductactus reus

   Broaderactivity

   Narrowerbrutalizationtrespasstortmalversationmisbehaviorderelictionmalfeasancemisfeasancemalpracticeperversion

1. 1.

   behave badly

   “The children misbehaved all morning”

   Synonymsmisbehavemisdemean

   Broaderact

   Narrowerfall from graceact up
2. 2.

   manage badly or incompetently

   “The funds were mismanaged”

   Synonymsmismanagemishandle

   Broadermanage

Other forms of misconduct

plural

misconducts·

past tense

misconducted·

present participle

misconducting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about misconduct

What does misconduct mean?

misconduct means "bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in misconduct?

misconduct has 3 syllables: mi-scon-duct. The stress falls on "scon". In IPA it is /mɪˈskɑndəkt/.

What is another word for misconduct?

Close synonyms include wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, actus reus, misbehave, misdemean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is misconduct a common word?

misconduct is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.