tack, misconduct, heinous, abominable, demarcation, flagitious, harassment, discrimination and defamation,

U.S. Pursues New Tack in VW Emissions Probe B1 Federal prosecutors are using a bank-fraud statute to go after Volkswagen over its acknowledged cheating on diesel-emissions tests, the first known instance of the government using the law outside of financial misconduct.

We are at a point in American history when candidates for president of the United States are telling voters abominable things – justifying and legitimizing hate. Why aren’t the decent Republican members of Congress and Senate, or former members, or former Republican presidents and vice presidents repudiating this? Where are the news anchors and opinion makers – the Edward R. Murrow’s of today’s national conscience?

Founder of Yoga Empire Accused of Misconduct

By SARA BECK 7:49 PM ET

The suit, filed in Los Angeles by a former student, charges Bikram Choudhury with sexual harassment, discrimination and defamation, and seeks $25,000 in damages.

demarcation	Obama To Lay Out Economy 'Blueprint' The president will use the State of the Union to draw sharp differences with Republicans. (noun) The boundary of a specific area.
Synonyms:	limit
Usage:	At any garrisoned point where the line of demarcation between one country and another is so very narrow as at Niagara, desertion from the ranks can scarcely fail to be of frequent occurrence. There was no wind to make a ripple on the foul water within the harbour, or on the beautiful sea without. The line of demarcation between the two colours, black and blue, showed the point which the pure sea would not pass; but it lay as quiet as the abominable pool, with which it never mixed. Boats without awnings were too hot to touch; ships blistered at their moorings; the stones of the quays had not cooled, night or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Portuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, Venetians, Greeks, Turks, descendants from all the builders of Babel, come to trade at Marseilles, sought the shade alike--taking refuge in any hiding-place from a sea too intensely blue to be looked at, and a sky of purple, set with one great flaming jewel of fire. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens London May 1857 BOOK THE FIRST POVERTY CHAPTER 1 Sun and Shadow

flagitious	(adjective) Shockingly brutal or cruel.
Synonyms:	atrocious, monstrous, grievous
Usage:	All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect regularity in the bodily figure.

• 発音記号[flədʒíʃəs]

[形]((主に文))

1 〈人・行動・時代などが〉凶悪な, 破廉恥な.

2 〈罪などが〉極悪の；悪名高い.

fla・gi・tious・ly

[副]

fla・gi・tious・ness

[名]

heinous

	(adjective) Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable.
Synonyms:	flagitious
Usage:	Abusing an animal is a heinous act.

(hā'nəs)
adj.
Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable: a heinous crime.

[Middle English, from Old French haineus, from haine, hatred, from hair, to hate, from Frankish *hatjan.]

• [héinəs] [形]

1 ((形式))憎むべき, 非常に悪い

a heinous crime ［criminal］
極悪非道な犯罪［犯人］.

2 ((俗))悪い, ひどい, 劣った(crappy).

hei・nous・ly

[副]

heinously hei'nous·ly adv.
heinousness hei'nous·ness n.

misconduct

音節mis • cónduct

misconductの変化形

misconducts (複数形) • misconducted (過去形) • misconducted (過去分詞) • misconducting (現在分詞) • misconducts (三人称単数現在)

[名][U]

1 非行, 不品行；姦通(かんつう)

commit misconduct with ...
…と姦通する.

2 ((形式))（官吏などの）違法［不法］行為, 職権乱用, 不正管理, 不当経営.

━━[動] 〔–〕 (他)

1 …の管理［処理］を誤る.

2 ((〜 -self))不正を働く；（…と）姦通する((with ...)).

tack

. a course of action differing from some previous course: he went off on a fresh tack.

11. on the wrong tack under a false impression