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Meanings of defalcate in English
Catalan
malversar Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use.
Synonyms
Examples for "embezzle"
Examples for "embezzle"
1
My wife wouldn't embezzle from me and give it to her lover.
2
You see, Josie didn't embezzle millions of dollars from her company.
3
When I urged reform, the officials and gentry seized the opportunity to embezzle.
4
Had he and Hallis acted together to embezzle from Bright Ascents?
5
There appeared to be an opportunity for the embezzler to embezzle with perfect safety.
1
He was still firm in his refusal to misappropriate those heirlooms.
2
None of his lieutenants dares to misappropriate the funds turned over to him.
3
Those who solicit contributions without authority of the government and misappropriate the public funds.
4
Against anything that tries to misappropriate it, I guess.
5
It behoves you not thus to misappropriate my stalks!
1
We should let it peculate for another.
2
The former is counted by hundreds of taels; the latter, by thousands, especially where there is a temptation to peculate.
3
And this not from any real lack, but simply from the mistakes of a bungling, peculating Government.
4
He was charged with various acts of extortion on the citizens of Philadelphia, and with peculating on the public funds.
5
Why are all such bequests subject to the interference, the vexatious, arbitrary, peculating interference of the Orange commissioners for charitable donations?
Usage of defalcate in English
1
Originally, to defalcate meant to cut or lop off a portion from the whole; to retrench, deduct, subtract.
2
I was surprised to find that the verb defalcate is still in use; I thought it had died out years ago.
3
An embezzler can not defalcate in Nova Scotia, lightly skip into Manitoba and put both provinces to expense and technical trouble apprehending him.
4
The plasterers were hindered; the painters misunderstood orders; the paperers have defalcated, and the universe generally comes to a pause.
Frequent collocations
Defalcate through the time