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Defalcation

noun

The sum of money that is misappropriated.

The fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else. Synonyms: embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation.

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"Defalcation" Quotes from Famous Books

... Saharas of fact, and not enough to picturesque detail; this throws about them a certain air of the monotonous; in fact the fights are all alike: a couple of people come together with great random —random is a good word, and so is exegesis, for that matter, and so is holocaust, and defalcation, and usufruct and a hundred others, but land! a body ought to discriminate—they come together with great random, and a spear is brast, and one party brake his shield and the other one goes down, horse and man, over his horse-tail and brake his neck, and ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... he was a man and not a father, he could understand how the hurt would rankle year after year at the defalcation ...

— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine

... doubts, because Maude was niece to Sir Francis. And Sir Francis was much talked about at the Deanery. "My uncle was not down here this morning," Maude would say:—and then she would go on to excuse the defalcation. He had had business requiring his immediate attention,—probably something as to the marriage settlements. "But of course he will tell you all that." Cecilia saw through the little attempts. Maude was quite aware that Sir Francis was becoming weary of his lover's ...

— Kept in the Dark • Anthony Trollope

... looking like a man of eighty, left the private office of Mr. Van Riper he had two things to do. One was to tell his wife, the other was to assign enough property to Van Riper to cover the amount of the defalcation. Both ...

— The Story of a New York House • Henry Cuyler Bunner

... was officially exonerated from any wilful misdoing, and his work commended. Nevertheless, many unpleasant things were brought to light,—the methods of transacting the business of the Bureau were faulty; several cases of defalcation were proved, and other frauds strongly suspected; there were some business transactions which savored of dangerous speculation, if not dishonesty; and around it all lay the smirch of the ...

— The Souls of Black Folk • W. E. B. Du Bois

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