malpractice

The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.countableuncountable

Improper or unethical conduct by a professional or official person.countableuncountable

• 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.
• 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.