embezzle
verb (used with object)
to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as money or property entrusted to one's care.
has embezzled
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present perfectof embezzle (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The prosecutors said the rough English translation of the Hausa phrase in his tweet was "Mama has embezzled monies meant for the poor".
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2022
Attorney’s Office to launch investigations, as mounting civil lawsuits allege Murdaugh has embezzled millions of dollars from his law firm and insurance companies.
From Fox News ● Sep. 22, 2021
Then all three get complicatedly busy trying to corner the money that dim-witted Victor Moore has embezzled.
From Time Magazine Archive
We may be able to say—"This man has lied, has pilfered, has forged, has embezzled moneys intrusted to him; and that man has gone through life with clean hands."
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
Here is the great financier, who has embezzled a million and a quarter, not because he needed money, but because people looked up to him.
From The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace
