Usually means: Wrongdoing or crime by someone.
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  1. malefaction: Merriam-Webster
  2. malefaction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. malefaction: Collins English Dictionary
  4. malefaction: Wordnik
  5. malefaction: Wiktionary
  6. malefaction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. malefaction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. malefaction: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Malefaction, malefaction: Dictionary.com
  10. Malefaction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. malefaction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Malefaction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. malefaction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. malefaction: FreeDictionary.org
  15. Malefaction: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. malefaction: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (malefaction)

▸ noun:  A crime, an offense, an evil deed.

Similar:
malefeasance, abomination, malefactress, fact, misdeed, enormity, malfeasance, malevolency, misguilt, malignment, more...

Opposite:
benevolence, good deed, kindness, goodwill, generosity

Types:
larceny, robbery, theft, embezzlement, extortion, fraud, more...



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Similar:
malefeasance, abomination, malefactress, fact, misdeed, enormity, malfeasance, malevolency, misguilt, malignment, more...

Opposite:
benevolence, good deed, kindness, goodwill, generosity

Types:
larceny, robbery, theft, embezzlement, extortion, fraud, more...



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