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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It is usual when any member has misconducted himself, to appoint a small committee to visit the offender, to endeavour to convince him of his error and induce him to forsake it.
From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Caroline Frances Cornwallis
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
And if she were to leave it, why should she go with a woman that has misconducted herself?”
From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
The Indian war they alleged was misconducted, and unnecessarily prolonged for the purposes of expending the public money, and of affording a pretext for augmenting the military establishment, and increasing the revenue.
From The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall
I am authowized to call for fifty volunteers; but I wish you all distinctly to understand that no man who has in any way misconducted himself will be accepted.
From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood
