misconduct
/mɪskənˈdʌkt/ verb C2- To mismanage.
- To behave inappropriately, to misbehave.
He/she/it misconducts · Past misconducted · Past participle misconducted · -ing form misconducting
Verb forms
- Base form
- misconduct
- He/she/it
- misconducts
- Past
- misconducted
- Past participle
- misconducted
- -ing form
- misconducting
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His pride, in that direction, may be of service, if not to himself, to many others, for it must deter him from such foul misconduct as I have suffered by.
Well, I shall write to the abbé; I shall hold him responsible for his protégé’s misconduct, and I shall soon know all about this assassination.
I cannot return you many thanks for the drive of yesterday; but, after all, I ought not to blame you for the misconduct of your horses, more especially as it procured me the pleasure of an introduction to the Count of Monte Cristo,—and certainly that illustrious personage, apart from the millions he is said to be so very anxious to dispose of, seemed to me one of those curiously interesting problems I, for one, delight in solving at any risk, even if it were to necessitate another drive to the Bois behind your horses.
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