malexecution

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mal- +‎ execution

Noun[edit]

malexecution (uncountable)

  1. Bad execution.
    • October 12 1832, Daniel Webster, speech delivered at the National Republican Convention at Worcester, Massachusetts
      Political proscription leads necessarily to the filling of offices with incompetent persons, and to a consequent malexecution of official duties.

References[edit]

malexecution”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.