Peculation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PECULATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• embezzlement
• The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one\'s own use the money or goods intrusted to one\'s care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.
• the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
• the act of stealing or taking dishonestly.

Words related to PECULATION

embezzlement36 peculations15

Words that contain PECULATION

peculations15 speculation15 speculations16 antispeculation19 overspeculation22 overspeculations23 superspeculation22 superspeculations23

How to use PECULATION in a sentence

• Corruption and peculation on the part of officials were severely punished.
• There was the most shameless peculation in the kitchen, and money given in charity was appropriated by the servants, who all combined to cheat her.
• Right near them are the homes of smaller Indians, who have reduced peculation to a fine art, and who steal on general principles.
• Who derives the benefit of peculation I am unable to state.
• Another ill effect of the exclusion would be the temptation to sordid views, to peculation, and, in some instances, to usurpation.
• Without these qualities in their public servants, more stringent laws for the prevention or punishment of fraud, negligence, and peculation will be vain.
• Almost every high Spanish official was guilty of peculation at the expense of the government, and of bribe-taking at the expense of the citizens.
• Nothing speaks better for his perfect probity than that his enemies were unable to bring the slightest charge of peculation or of partiality against him.
• He was liberal to the tenants of the State, courteous and accessible to all, upright in his administration, and, above all, he kept his hands clean from bribes and peculation.
• The malecontents took the opportunity to send home charges against Laudonniere of peculation, favoritism, and tyranny.
• One revelation after another showed officers, high and low, possessed with the spirit of peculation.
• They were the capitalists who farmed the public revenues in the provinces, where they committed peculation and extortion with habitual impunity.
• Harley, one of the commissioners for taking and stating the public accounts, delivered a report, which contained a charge of peculation against lord Falkland.
• But the drain of the French war, and the peculation in public funds brought about the final upheaval which completed what the Black Death had begun.
• The same unprincipled peculation was practised by other municipal or state officers.
• As to the mere financial mischief that results from domestic peculation, that too is immense from a political point of view.
• The peculation is self-evident, and the guilty persons are known.
• He placed supervisors of known intelligence and probity in each custom-house to watch and prevent fraud and peculation.
• Peculation appeared on every hand, white sharpers abounded, and Indians, relatively affluent, subsisted at government expense.
• Fraud, injustice, oppression, peculation, engendered in India, are crimes of the same blood, family, and cast with those that are born and bred in England.
• Both were afforded every opportunity for dishonest peculation, and both came out, despite the allurements of temptation, with clean hands and untainted reputation.

Similar words containing PECULA without suffix tion

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