wrongful conduct

1. 1.

   activity that transgresses moral or civil law

   “he denied any wrongdoing”

   Synonymswrongdoingmisconductactus reus

   Broaderactivity

   Narrowerbrutalizationtrespasstortmalversationmisbehaviorderelictionmalfeasancemisfeasancemalpracticeperversion

Questions about wrongful conduct

What does wrongful conduct mean?

wrongful conduct means "activity that transgresses moral or civil law".

What is another word for wrongful conduct?

Close synonyms include wrongdoing, misconduct, actus reus. 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 wrongful conduct a common word?

wrongful conduct is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.