criminal maintenance vs misconduct

misconduct vs criminal maintenance

criminal maintenance and misconduct both are nouns.

criminal maintenance is not a verb while misconduct is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
criminal maintenance	Yes	No	No	No
misconduct	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, misconduct is a hypernym of criminal maintenance; that is, misconduct is a word with a broader meaning than criminal maintenance:

criminal maintenance: the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
misconduct: activity that transgresses moral or civil law

Other hypernyms of criminal maintenance include actus reus, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct.

criminal maintenance (noun)	misconduct (noun)
the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community	activity that transgresses moral or civil law
	bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf

criminal maintenance (verb)	misconduct (verb)
	manage badly or incompetently
	behave badly

Difference between criminal maintenance and misconduct

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