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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun malpractice has 2 senses
- malpractice(n = noun.act) Array - professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage; "the widow sued his surgeon for malpractice" is a kind of actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct
- malpractice(n = noun.act) Array - a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral malpractices" is a kind of actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct
CIDE DICTIONARY
malpractice, n. [Mal- + practice.].
Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
malpractice, n.
1 improper or negligent professional treatment, esp. by a medical practitioner.
2 a criminal wrongdoing; misconduct. b an instance of this.
1 improper or negligent professional treatment, esp. by a medical practitioner.
2 a criminal wrongdoing; misconduct. b an instance of this.
THESAURUS
malpractice
abuse, abuse of office, bad policy, befoulment, conversion, corrupt administration, crime, criminal tendency, criminality, criminosis, debasement, defalcation, defilement, desecration, diversion, embezzlement, evil courses, evildoing, feloniousness, fouling, impolicy, inexpedience, inexpediency, lawbreaking, maladministration, malfeasance, malversation, misadministration, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdirection, misdoing, misemployment, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, mismanagement, misprision, misprision of treason, misrule, misusage, misuse, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, omission, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, positive misprision, profanation, prostitution, sin, thou scarlet sin, vice, viciousness, violation, wrong conduct, wrongdoingROGET THESAURUS
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Guilt
N guilt, guiltiness, culpability, criminality, criminousness, deviation from rectitude, sinfulness, misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed, malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression, dereliction, delinquency, indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo, flaw, blot, omission, failing, failure, break, bad break!, capital crime, delictum, offense, trespass, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, malefaction, malfeasance, malversation, crime, felony, enormity, atrocity, outrage, deadly sin, mortal sin, deed without a name, corpus delicti, guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable, weighed in the balance and found wanting, exceptionable, in flagrante delicto, red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar, cui prodest scelus in fecit, culpam paena premit comes, O would the deed were good!, responsibility prevents crimes se judice nemo noce, so many laws argues so many sins.
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