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countable and uncountable, plural malpractices
The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss. examples
Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person. quotations examples
When such a breakdown occurs there must be a full examination of the corruption that has been committed, and the leaders involved in malpractices must be encouraged to give a full account of what took place.
2007, Stephen Prosser, To Be a Servant-Leader
A national-security budget where we spend 20 times as much money on the military and intelligence agencies as we do on diplomacy, democracy promotion, and smart power, is foreign-policy malpractice in the modern world.
2019 October 7, Chris Murphy, “How to Make a Progressive Foreign Policy Actually Work”, in The Atlantic