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malpractitioner

  • a word derived from malpractice.
    malpractice
    noun
    failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.

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"I have been made acutely aware that a solitary malpractitioner, if he has an abundance of money and malice, can intimidate all and sundry – and that includes both scholars and journalists."

From The Guardian Apr. 23, 2010

This was an eleven-room house in a respectable Newark neighborhood where one George E. Harley, a genteel little malpractitioner, conducted an anti-birth insurance business.

From Time Magazine Archive

I can account for this state of mind in the teacher only as the result of sin; otherwise, his own guilt as a mental malpractitioner, and fear of being found out.

From Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy

The pupil's imperfect knowledge will lead to weakness in practice, and he will be a poor practitioner, if not a malpractitioner.

From Rudimental Divine Science by Mary Baker Eddy