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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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
It was Ninon's cat that had misconducted herself.
From Memoirs of My Dead Life by George (George Augustus) Moore
He now said he thought Mrs. Burroughs had misconducted herself, and he could not order her husband to take her home again.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie
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
T.—Is probably Tallien, who had misconducted himself in Egypt.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Henry Foljambe Hall
