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Meanings of peculate in English
Catalan
malversar Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use.
Usage of peculate in English
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?
Frequent collocations
Peculate through the time