misconduct

English

Etymology 1

mis- +‎ conduct (noun sense)

Pronunciation

(UK): enPR: mĭs-kŏnʹdŭkt, IPA^(key): /mɪsˈkɒndʌkt/
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Noun

misconduct (usually uncountable, plural misconducts)

Behavior that is considered to be unacceptable.
The student was threatened with a £2,000 fine and banned from using the university's computing resources for two weeks due to gross misconduct on the Internet.

Translations

bad behavior — see misbehavior

Etymology 2

mis- +‎ conduct (verb sense)

Pronunciation

enPR: mĭs-kən-dŭktʹ, IPA^(key): /mɪskənˈdʌkt/
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Verb

misconduct (third-person singular simple present misconducts, present participle misconducting, simple past and past participle misconducted)

(transitive) To mismanage. [from 18th c.]
(reflexive) To behave inappropriately, to misbehave. [from 19th c.]
- 1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, Harper Perennal 1995, p. 224:
  It had been pointed out […] that in the past enemy aliens misconducting themselves had been returned to the internment camp.
(intransitive, rare) To act improperly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

mismanage — see mismanage

misbehave — see misbehave