How to Use malpractice in a Sentence

malpractice

noun

• Doctors need to have malpractice insurance to protect themselves against lawsuits.
• Any buy on Trotz’s part would be malpractice.
  — The Athletic Nhl Staff, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026
• That would have been malpractice.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2026
• To not record something like this would be malpractice at this point, on both sides.
  — ABC News, 27 July 2025
• Of course the songs are tanking as a result of this pop-star malpractice.
  — Michael Arceneaux, The Root, 29 May 2017
• To say much more would be critical malpractice.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 9 June 2026
• The black box warnings can also play a role in malpractice cases.
  — C. Michael White, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
• That's like campaign malpractice to run an ad two years before a campaign.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 22 May 2024
• Not to file a protective refund claim would, in my mind, be malpractice.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• Far from being acts of compassion, these would be acts of malpractice.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024
• Oh, and her father is a medical malpractice lawyer, so this is going straight to court.
  — refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• That probe turned up more malpractice and a decision to dismiss charges that never should have been brought.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
• Gregory was startled at the news, as was the judge in his malpractice suit against Wood.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• If that's not the case, the franchise would be guilty of gross incompetence and malpractice.
  — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2018
• To do otherwise would have been malpractice and malfeasance.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2026
• The suit charges the doctors involved with malpractice and lack of informed consent.
  — Jackson Walker, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
• From the minute the raid occurred, Trump has been trying to paint the seizure as the real malpractice at hand.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2022
• The malpractice lawsuit said Kuper had placed two screws too close to an area where nerve roots exit the spinal cord.
  — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 24 June 2020
• Unless the team is already in a tailspin, a move like this would equate to football coaching malpractice.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 13 Jan. 2019
• Varughese and Sun are both defendants in the malpractice case.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 23 June 2023
• Lawyers in the malpractice case were arguing over whether the claims were barred by the statute of limitations.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2021
• In the absence of any actionable malpractice, those who have lost out — adults all — will be left to pay the price of their gambling.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 27 Feb. 2021
• To some pundits, the early dismissals of the lab thesis now look like media malpractice.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• The human toll of the low quality is detailed in wrongful death malpractice claims.
  — Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Aug. 2020
• Physicians, therefore, who use impure virus ought to be held to the strictest legal account for malpractice.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2021
• The press tends to gloss over the dog whistles, but years of this malpractice has led to the whistles becoming as loud as bullhorns.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 16 May 2022
• But the public won’t find amounts of malpractice settlements, or any details about what the payments were for, there.
  — Amber Gaudet updated February 23, Charlotte Observer, 23 Feb. 2026
• One lawyer in Texas has started filing malpractice lawsuits.
  — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 26 May 2026
• One lawyer in Texas has started filing malpractice lawsuits.
  — Kavitha Surana, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
• What looked like late-game coaching malpractice on television was, in fact, a messier Knicks failure than that.
  — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 21 Apr. 2026