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Defalcation

noun

The sum of money that is misappropriated.

The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else. Synonyms: embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation.

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"Defalcation" Quotes from Famous Books

... crime-the crime of a base deception, and, as it seems, of a defalcation involving immense sums and ...

— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach

... themselves, has granted them the continuance both of the Spectator and their Bread and Butter; having given particular Orders, that the Tea-Table shall be set forth every Morning with its Customary Bill of Fare, and without any manner of Defalcation. I thought my self obliged to mention this Particular, as it does Honour to this worthy Gentleman; and if the young Lady Laetitia, who sent me this Account, will acquaint me with his Name, I will insert it at length in one of my Papers, if he ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... of new alarm that Ferris learned from the company's advisory attorneys that Mr. Witherspoon had been commissioned by the executors of the estate "to make a thorough investigation into the alleged defalcation of ...

— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage

... would see that he had gloves and that his shoes were sound; and the pair would start for the leather business arm in arm. The way there was probably dreary enough, for there was no pretence of friendly feeling; Morris had never ceased to upbraid his guardian with his defalcation and to lament the burthen of Miss Hazeltine; and Joseph, though he was a mild enough soul, regarded his nephew with something very near akin to hatred. But the way there was nothing to the journey back; for the ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... above $450,000,000, have been collected and disbursed without revealing, so far as I can ascertain, a single case of defalcation or embezzlement. An earnest effort has been made to stimulate a sense of responsibility and public duty in all officers and employees of every grade, and the work done by them has almost wholly escaped ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume IX. • Benjamin Harrison

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