Usage examples (18)

• There is an increasing rate of malefaction in the neighborhood this past week and the police is looking into it.
• We in the press have hastened to accuse them of every kind of malefaction, whether justified or not, and have often been slow to correct the misimpressions we left.
• It is a saga of rags and riches, loves won and lost, and, in the end, betrayal, malefaction, and regret.
• The billionaire is so proud of and confident in his every malefaction, he declaims them from the rooftop.