0 an example of dishonest and illegal behaviour, especially by a person in authority -- （尤指掌权者的）违法乱纪行为，渎职
Several cases of malpractice and malfeasance in the financial world are currently being investigated. 金融界的几起渎职违规案件目前正在调查之中。
Centralists find the concentration of power (within a democratic framework) to be conducive to good governance, while decentralists are convinced that a consolidation of power usually leads to malfeasance.
And when it goes badly, who charges the other side with malfeasance?
People who lacked control over bureaucratic malfeasance and injustice used petitions to involve the secretary-general in their everyday concerns in order to have their demands fulfilled and justice restored.
In the absence of rival entities there may be no effective way to counter official malfeasance.
As we noted above, challengers have a direct incentive to uncover the malfeasance of incumbents because they increase their probability of winning office once the incumbent is discredited.
Voters' ability to monitor the relevant actors depends on the voters' ability, first, to observe malfeasance if it occurs and, secondly, to organize for oversight.
He argued that 'agents in markets and organizations in the modern society generate trust and discourage malfeasance by being embedded in concrete personal relations and structures (networks)'.
Proponents of regulation anticipate that they may use the courts to prevent such political interference and bureaucratic malfeasance.
