misconduct
noun
improper or wrong behavior.
misconducted
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past participleof misconduct.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof misconduct.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
misconductnounimproper or wrong behavior.
Example Sentences
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I asked him what would happen if this nominated General misconducted himself in any way, or proved unsuitable, or lost his reason.
From Regeneration by Henry Rider Haggard
His defense was an alibi, an attempt, that is, to prove that he was elsewhere on the night when he was alleged to have misconducted himself at Rome.
From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church
The universal complaint of the Spanish or national party in the time of Christina was, that the queen's education was neglected, or, it should rather be said, misconducted.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
They were shamefully treated; and it is recorded that the Oxford scholars hissed and howled and groaned, and misconducted themselves in an anything but a scholarly way.
From A Child's History of England by F. H. Townsend
One of these was Trebonius, who had misconducted himself in Spain, and was smarting under the recollection of his own failures.
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
