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
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
The whole town knows of his peculation, accepts it philosophically : "Hit's nachel — hit's nachel . . . evahthing what's bad is nachel."
From Time Magazine Archive
He was involved in the trial of Fouquet, and in April 1663 was condemned to death for peculation and embezzlement of public funds; but escaping, was executed in effigy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
