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Significados de defalcate em inglês

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Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use.

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        Examples for "embezzle"
        Examples for "embezzle"
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        My wife wouldn't embezzle from me and give it to her lover.
        Take a Chance on Me
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        You see, Josie didn't embezzle millions of dollars from her company.
        Roast mortem
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        When I urged reform, the officials and gentry seized the opportunity to embezzle.
        China and the Manchus
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        Had he and Hallis acted together to embezzle from Bright Ascents?
        Bones on Ice
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        There appeared to be an opportunity for the embezzler to embezzle with perfect safety.
        The new yorker
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        He was still firm in his refusal to misappropriate those heirlooms.
        Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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        None of his lieutenants dares to misappropriate the funds turned over to him.
        The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ...
        3
        Those who solicit contributions without authority of the government and misappropriate the public funds.
        The Story of the Philippines / Natural Riches, Industrial Resour...
        4
        Against anything that tries to misappropriate it, I guess.
        The Great Book of Amber
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        It behoves you not thus to misappropriate my stalks!
        The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
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        We should let it peculate for another.
        The new yorker
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        The former is counted by hundreds of taels; the latter, by thousands, especially where there is a temptation to peculate.
        The Awakening of China
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        And this not from any real lack, but simply from the mistakes of a bungling, peculating Government.
        The Secret City
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        He was charged with various acts of extortion on the citizens of Philadelphia, and with peculating on the public funds.
        Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 / Revised, Enlarged, and ...
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        Why are all such bequests subject to the interference, the vexatious, arbitrary, peculating interference of the Orange commissioners for charitable donations?
        Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 / With His Letters and Journals
        Uso de defalcate em inglês
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        Originally, to defalcate meant to cut or lop off a portion from the whole; to retrench, deduct, subtract.
        The Irish Times
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        I was surprised to find that the verb defalcate is still in use; I thought it had died out years ago.
        The Irish Times
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        An embezzler can not defalcate in Nova Scotia, lightly skip into Manitoba and put both provinces to expense and technical trouble apprehending him.
        The Canadian Commonwealth
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        The plasterers were hindered; the painters misunderstood orders; the paperers have defalcated, and the universe generally comes to a pause.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 / A Magazine...
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        Defalcate ao longo do tempo