| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mal·ver·sa·tion |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m l v r-s  shn |
| NOUN: | Misconduct in public office. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French, from malverser, to misbehave, from Old French, from Latin male versr : male, badly; see mel-3 in Appendix I + versr, to behave; see wer-2 in Appendix I.
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