The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else.
1 Treasurer Norris was constantly accused by Leicester and Sidney of gross peculation .
2 The ministers guilty of peculation seek, O Bharata, to slay such informants.
3 And then, too, she had referred again to her sin of peculation .
4 There had been no fraud; no robbery; no purpose of peculation .
5 Scandals in his Department gave rise to sweeping charges of peculation .
6 Who derives the benefit of peculation I am unable to state.
7 Eiran, to do him justice, is not a graduate in peculation .
8 The necessity which arises from dissipation, can never be urged to excuse peculation .
9 Indeed, for beginners at peculation we did not do so badly.
10 Tricks, peculation , obstinacies, vanities-afterthis war men will still be men.
11 I was not detected in the first peculation ; this encouraged me to take more.
12 The establishment now became a scene of confusion and peculation .
13 Bribery was the instrument of government, and peculation its reward.
14 This, then, was one of the results of such peculation .
15 But it was strongly rumoured that there had been foul play, peculation , even forgery.
16 Within three weeks the host was a prisoner of State, accused of peculation in office.
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