misconduct
noun
improper or wrong behavior.
had misconducted
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past perfectof misconduct.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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And then, though he would have gone to a desert island with his wife, had such exile been necessary for her protection, he did believe that she had misconducted herself.
From Is He Popenjoy? by Anthony Trollope
T.—Is probably Tallien, who had misconducted himself in Egypt.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
The apparent insinuation that he had misconducted himself while on his parole of good behaviour, was one of the things he could least endure.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
The practice of compelling girls who had misconducted themselves to stand in church for three Sundays was only given up at Pickering in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
From The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home
That to Colonel Hodges was most strongly worded, calling on him to address Mohhammad Ali in writing to urge him to compensate the sufferers and remove those officers who had misconducted themselves in Damascus.
From Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 by Louis Loewe
