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    Use "embezzlement" in a sentence

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    embezzlement


    1. malversation, or embezzlement, either of the public money, or of that of the company ; and the fear of the punishment can never be a motive of sufficient weight to force a continual and careful attention to a business to which he has no other interest to attend


    2. Suharto was placed under house arrest for embezzlement of over half a billion in foreign aid, but avoided prosecution because of his declining health and the presence of many of his former appointees still in office


    3. Chalabi is one of the more bizarre figures of recent years, a mathematician raised in the west who is wanted for bank fraud and embezzlement in Jordan


    4. Embezzlement is not just happening to rich investors, and is arguably rife in small growth


    5. Judges will tell you that most embezzlement results not from some master mind wanting to take advantage of other people, but rather from some poor soul who has gotten himself in hock to the point where he sees no other way out


    6. , was found guilty of embezzlement


    7. "Wait a minute! Did you say I'm under arrest as an accessory to embezzlement?"


    8. embezzlement, and not the $10,000


    9. accessory to the embezzlement


    10. fraud, embezzlement and violation of the Boland Agreement

    11. The punishment for embezzlement over the sum of ten thousand US dollars is death by assassination


    12. They might even prove embezzlement, but that would be difficult


    13. As for the story of his kidnapping, the other and more credible version is that after the collapse of the Intra Bank and the alleged embezzlement of $200 million for which Roger was sentenced in absentia by a Lebanese court to 15 years jail and for which an Interpol arrest warrant is still loosely pending, it relates to a pro-Syrian Lebanese warlord who lost a few million dollars of his money in the Intra Bank affair


    14. How would Nolan know their private nickname? Had Paul used the Colonel to get out of the embezzlement charges, too?


    15. The embezzlement charges were dropped


    16. Some of the stewards (there were semiliterate foremen among them) listened with alarm, supposing these words to mean that the young count was displeased with their management and embezzlement of money, some after their first fright were amused by Pierre’s lisp and the new words they had not heard before, others simply enjoyed hearing how the master talked, while the cleverest among them, including the chief steward, understood from this speech how they could best handle the master for their own ends


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    Synonyms for "embezzlement"

    defalcation embezzlement misapplication misappropriation peculation robbery stealing piracy swindling shop-lifting pilfering

    "embezzlement" definitions

    the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else