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Defalcation

noun
1.
The sum of money that is misappropriated.
2.
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



... adores you, and who forgets in his adoration friends, family, and connections, the opinions in which he has been educated, the honour of his house, his own former views, and all his primitive sense of duty, both public and private!—A passion built on such a defalcation of principle renders him unworthy your acceptance; and not more ignoble for him would be a union which would blot his name from the injured stock whence he sprung, than indelicate for you, who upon such terms ought to ...
— Cecilia vol. 3 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)
... found what I think will turn out to be a big defalcation. Somebody drops out in disgrace with ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... furtively: "It was never safe to trust such a secret to scatter-brains like yourselves. But don't you know about the great defalcation? Brown, the president of the road, absconded with over a million of dollars, and they have not paid a single dividend in three years. You ought to hear my wife ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 • Various
... up lately in an English court of justice, in which a certain duke prosecuted his butler for malversation in his charge. It appeared in evidence that the defalcation on the account for wine alone amounted to L. 1500. This fact incidentally reveals two things:—How great is the wealth of these British princes; and how little that wealth ...
— The Parables of Our Lord • William Arnot


Words linked to "Defalcation" :   sum, stealing, thievery, plunderage, amount, defalcate, sum of money, thieving, theft, raid, larceny, amount of money


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