peculate
verb (used with or without object)
to steal or take dishonestly (money, especially public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.
peculation
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a word derived from
peculate.
Example Sentences
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“He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression,” he said, according to the minutes.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2019
“He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression. He might betray his trust to foreign powers.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019
In many cases the institutions also succumbed to old-fashioned peculation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quite the contrary, he is said to have chafed angrily in private at the peculation he saw among other high government officials.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was stated that the official is cruelly paid for his labour, and M. Michelet further hints, that peculation is but too often the grievous consequence.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
