wrongful conduct vs criminal maintenance

criminal maintenance vs wrongful conduct

wrongful conduct and criminal maintenance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wrongful conduct	Yes	No	No	No
criminal maintenance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, criminal maintenance is a hyponym of wrongful conduct; that is, criminal maintenance is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than wrongful conduct:

wrongful conduct: activity that transgresses moral or civil law
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

Other hyponyms of wrongful conduct include brutalisation, brutalization, encroachment, intrusion, trespass, usurpation, violation, civil wrong, tort, malversation, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, dereliction, malfeasance, misfeasance, malpractice, malpractice, perversion, injury, injury, iniquity, injustice, shabbiness, unfairness, infliction, evildoing, transgression, dishonesty, knavery, falsification, misrepresentation, champerty, maintenance, infringement, violation.

wrongful conduct (noun)	criminal maintenance (noun)
activity that transgresses moral or civil law	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

Difference between wrongful conduct and criminal maintenance

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