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Defalcate   Listen
verb
Defalcate  v. i.  To commit defalcation; to embezzle money held in trust. "Some partner defalcating, or the like."





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"Defalcate" Quotes from Famous Books



... he shall wince under his hits, his jokes, his stinging rebuke! There is also something companionable in the thought, that we are not alone in this onward movement of years, this stern necessity of motion, this tread-mill step! No one can defalcate in this particular; no one can Texas-ize and be quit of his transgressions and his onward travel. But millions of our own kith and kin travel the same way; England goes with us; Europe goes with us; and let not the indolent Turk dream that he is becalmed the ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 - Volume 23, Number 4 • Various


Words linked to "Defalcate" :   defalcation, malversate, misappropriate, defalcator, steal, embezzle


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