defalcator

NOUN
  1. someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use
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How To Use defalcator In A Sentence

  • The committee members accused the top officials of the respective ministries and recommended that show-cause notice should be issued against the director general of the Directorate of Livestock for his failure to take punitive measures against the defalcators.
  • I hope you're having fun and have not had any mishaps with the local defalcators!
  • On the 17th of January, 1838, the United States treasurer reported to Congress sixty-three defalcators, in all to the amount of upwards of a million of dollars, without touching the vast amounts lost in the local banks, - a mere beginning of the end.
  • It then ‘snowballs’ as the defalcator is forced to use funds from other closings to make the payments on the loans that were not paid off previously.
  • Gardner believed the defalcator should be permitted to return, having been sufficiently punished by his exile.
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