Vocabulary
Malfeasance
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
wrongful conduct by a public official
Urdu meaning
بدعنوانی، جرم، نقصان دہ رویہ
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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The contradiction is glaring.The most serious shortcoming of the report is its failure to undertake a thoughtful examination of the policies that create incentives for malfeasance.
Dawn Editorials —
IMF report: light on substance
— 2025-12-01
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The result is that along with the natural intensity of the floods, human malfeasance from the Indian side has compounded the disaster for Pakistan.
Dawn Editorials —
Weaponising water
— 2025-08-29
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But if the present regime at some point offers some `benefit` to Bahria Town in return for Mr Riaz`s `cooperation`, it would be considered guilty of the same malfeasance it accuses Mr Khan of.
Dawn Editorials —
Second chances
— 2025-08-07
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While the recent Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has focused attention on the framework presented by Acemoglu and Robinson, American economist Mancur Olson presented insights on elite malfeasance two decades earlier.
Dawn Editorials —
From hard to harder
— 2025-04-03
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HIS was, perhaps, the only case in which there seemed to be ostensible malfeasance involved.
Dawn Editorials —
Al Qadir ruling
— 2025-01-18
Synonyms
misbehavior, misconduct, misdoing, wrongdoing
Antonyms
behavior, manners, obedience
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