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Meanings of misappropriate in English
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
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.
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 misappropriate in English
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!
6
The Western Province Governor Ati Wobiro had been found guilty of conspiring to misappropriate provincial funds.
7
Google has argued that it helps newspaper websites make money through online advertising and does not misappropriate content.
8
CCDI also said it would punish those who are derelict in their duty and misappropriate rescue funds and materials.
9
A well-dressed, well-bred gentleman, of charming manners, could scarcely be suspected of any intention to misappropriate a two-sous piece.
10
It literally means "to kidnap" - most commonly, to misappropriate content and wrongly attribute it to oneself.
11
Prosecutors have said that the scheme at TBW involved efforts by Farkas and others to misappropriate funds from multiple sources.
12
Wobiro was last month found guilty of conspiring to misappropriate provincial funds, and has spent the last week in prison.
13
IBM filed a counter-claim to Neon's suit in January, accusing Neon of building zPrime in a way to misappropriate IBM's intellectual property.
14
The Waigani National Court in Papua New Guinea has found the Western Province governor Ati Wobiro guilty of conspiring to misappropriate provincial funds.
15
We must not throw away or misappropriate her forces destined to the corporeal architecture of man, by tasks that belong properly to an after-time.
16
This was an attempt to misappropriate the goodwill and value of the Tribune's business and an extremely cynical and outrageous attempt to target its readers.
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