malversation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From French malversation, from malverser, from Latin male versari (“behave badly”). Compare Spanish malversación (“embezzlement”).

And then, think of all the scandalous fortunes accumulated, all the malversations! — Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
They protest against the malversation of the whole of the moneys raised by additional taxes as a Famine Insurance Fund to other purposes. — The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition, Rudyard Kipling
But the loss occasioned by the negligence, profusion, and malversation of the servants of the company, had probably been a tax much heavier than all those duties. — An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

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