English > wrongdoing: 2 senses > noun 2, act| Meaning | Activity that transgresses moral or civil law. |
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| Example | "he denied any wrongdoing" |
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| Synonyms | wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus |
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| Narrower | brutalization, brutalisation | The activity of treating someone savagely or viciously |
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| champerty | An unethical agreement between an attorney and client that the attorney would sue and pay the costs of the client's suit in return for a portion of the damages awarded |
| dereliction | Willful negligence |
| dishonesty, knavery | lack of honesty |
| falsification, misrepresentation | A willful perversion of facts |
| infliction | An act causing pain or damage |
| injury | Wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted |
| injury | An act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage |
| injustice, unfairness, iniquity, shabbiness | An unjust / unjust / unjust act |
| maintenance, criminal maintenance | The unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community |
| malfeasance | wrongful conduct by a public official |
| malpractice | A wrongful / wrongful act that the actor / actor had no right to do |
| malpractice | professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage |
| malversation | misconduct in public office |
| misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed | Improper or wicked or immoral behavior |
| misfeasance | Doing a proper act in a wrongful / wrongful or injurious manner |
| perversion | The action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use) |
| tort, civil wrong | (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought |
| transgression, evildoing | The act of transgressing |
| trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation | entry to another's property without right or permission |
| violation, infringement | An act that disregards an agreement or a right |
| Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
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| Spanish | actus reus, mala conducta, maldad |
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| Catalan | actus reus, mala conducta, maldat |
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