peculation
- a word derived from peculate.
Example Sentences
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Peculation did not cease, but a day of reckoning was at hand.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis
Peculation and lying and the basest intrigue was on every side of us, hunger for which there was no necessity, want in a land packed with everything.
From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
Peculation, in sumptuous garb, and with modern appliances, finds itself modestly-perhaps unconsciously-gathering dross at the sacred altar.
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)
Peculation is carried on with railroad concessions on the Bourse by the initiated; but no capital is forthcoming for the railroads.
From Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Marx, Karl
Moses deny'd the Charge of Peculation; and his Accusers were destitute of Proofs to support it; tho' Facts, if real, are in their Nature capable of Proof.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.
