embezzle
verb (used with object)
to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as money or property entrusted to one's care.
embezzler
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a word derived from
embezzle.
Example Sentences
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Nor did he pardon a convicted embezzler, a San Francisco harbor commissioner, when the prospect of a $20,000 payoff was floated by the convict.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
Because no one suspected that the beguiling woman mingling in Alabama social circles was a private eye hunting a master embezzler.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2021
A convicted embezzler, the 59-year-old has terminal cancer.
From Reuters ● Apr. 3, 2020
Granted, those traits may add up to embezzler as much as disrupter, but after a lifetime of hearing negatives about our chronotype, I’ll take what I can get.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2018
The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
