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Definition of the day : « peculation »

  • As in theft : noun stealing
  • As in embezzlement : noun stealing money, often from employer
  • As in graft : noun payoff for fraud
Example sentences :
  • A striking instance of their peculation appeared in a circumstance that was connected with the British Embassy.
  • Extract from : « Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton » by John Barrow
  • Peculation, bankruptcy, and mutiny had done their work at last.
  • Extract from : « History of the United Netherlands, 1600-09, Vol. IV. Complete » by John Lothrop Motley
  • She replied that if his Highness's presents were accounted to her as peculation, she had been guilty.
  • Extract from : « A German Pompadour » by Marie Hay
  • Torreno is the ablest man, but he has injured his character by peculation.
  • Extract from : « The Greville Memoirs » by Charles C. F. Greville
  • There was waste, of course, as well as injustice and peculation.
  • Extract from : « The War With Mexico, Volume II (of 2) » by Justin H. Smith
  • Mismanagement and peculation had been as rife there as in Bengal.
  • Extract from : « A History of England, Period III. » by Rev. J. Franck Bright
  • Specific charges of peculation and wrong management are frequent.
  • Extract from : « The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 » by Various
  • Bribery was the instrument of government, and peculation its reward.
  • Extract from : « Science and Education » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • They have no compunction about robbing their government by peculation, but treachery is not their mtier.
  • Extract from : « Command » by William McFee
  • But this reign of peculation and oppression was fast drawing to a close.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 2 of 2) » by George Warburton