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appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family
How To Use defalcate In A Sentence
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- He failed to keep insurance funds separate from agency funds and defalcated from the escrow account in the amount of approximately $400,000.
- The money so defalcated were allegedly used in part to give gifts of air conditioners, furniture and other house hold items to their superiors by the accused staff members. Supreme Court Orders Investigation Against 26 Judges for Receiving Favors
- The Geelong legal firm with which he commenced his articles collapsed six months later when one of its members defalcated substantial funds.
- Robespierre, on the extreme Left, with perhaps Petion and lean old Goupil, for the very Triumvirate has defalcated, are shrieking hoarse; drowned in Constitutional clamour. The French Revolution
- He has been a competent attorney and had a good record until he defalcated money from the estate of Birger.
- He was accused that while director of the Oil Refinery he defalcated $107 million.
- This little piece of ground, which belonged to property leased to a certain William, βit was thought no injury to defalcateβ and include in his lease.
- Arab _Ar'ab_, not _arab_ arid _ar'id_ asphalt _asfalt_, not _fawlt_ bade _bad_ catch not _ketch_ defalcate _defal'kate_, not _fawl_ dilletante _dilletan'te_ forbade _forbad_ granary _granary_ program _pro'gram_, not _grum_ rapine _rap'in_ rational _rational_ sacrament _sacrament_ Practical Grammar and Composition
- Arab _Ar'ab_, not _arab_ arid _ar'id_ asphalt _asfalt_, not _fawlt_ bade _bad_ catch not _ketch_ defalcate _defal'kate_, not _fawl_ dilletante _dilletan'te_ forbade _forbad_ granary _granary_ program _pro'gram_, not _grum_ rapine _rap'in_ rational _rational_ sacrament _sacrament_ Practical Grammar and Composition