nonfeasance
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of nonfeasance
1590–1600; non- + obsolete feasance; see malfeasance
Example Sentences
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“The only question that remains is whether this is nonfeasance or malfeasance,” he said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
This Gil was incredibly easy to work for, to the point of complete nonfeasance.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2015
Will they ever hold a hearing to find out the source of their own nonfeasance?
From New York Times ● May 30, 2014
But what have New Yorkers been if not blindsided by incessant malfeasance and nonfeasance in the state capital?
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2010
The neglect which occasioned the damage might be a mere omission, and what was there akin to trespass in a nonfeasance to sustain the analogy upon which trespass on the case was founded?
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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