Word Meanings - MISCONDUCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISCONDUCT)

• Folly
• Madness
• nonsense
• misconduct
• imprudence
• silliness
• foolishness
• weakness
• absurdity
• imbecility
• Indiscretion
• Misconduct
• misbehavior
• misdoing
• misdeed
• dereliction
• delinquency
• lapse
• trip
• slip
• flaw
• blot
• omission
• trespass
• peccadillo

Related words: (words related to MISCONDUCT)

• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• IMBECILITY
  The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural
• PECCADILLO
  A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. Sir W. Scott.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• DERELICTION
  A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other
• LAPSE
  1. To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass. An appeal may be deserted by the appellant's lapsing the term of law. Ayliffe. 2. To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender. For which, if be
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• MISDEAL
  The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.
• MISDOING
  A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing.
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• TRESPASS
  1. Any injury or offence done to another. I you forgive all wholly this trespass. Chaucer. If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matt. vi. 15. 2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law;
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• MISDEMPT
  of Misdeem. Spenser.
• WEAKNESS
  1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
• LAPSED
  1. Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses. Once more I will renew His lapsed powers, though forfeit. Milton. 2. Ineffectual, void, or forfeited; as, a lapsed
• MISDESCRIBE
  To describe wrongly.
• IMPRUDENCE
  The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence. His serenity was interrupted, perhaps,
• MISDOUBT
  To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.
• ABSURDITY
  1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. "The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number." Locke. 2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were
• PROLAPSE
  The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.
• DELAPSE
  To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.
• RELAPSER
  One who relapses. Bp. Hall.
• ELAPSE
  To slip or glide away; to pass away silently, as time; -- used chiefly in reference to time. Eight days elapsed; at length a pilgrim came. Hoole.