embezzler

Example Sentences

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Because no one suspected that the beguiling woman mingling in Alabama social circles was a private eye hunting a master embezzler.

From Washington Post • Feb. 15, 2021

A woman meets her sheriff ex-boyfriend while in Las Vegas with her embezzler husband.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2020

A convicted embezzler, the 59-year-old has terminal cancer.

From Reuters • Apr. 3, 2020

Granted, those traits may add up to embezzler as much as disrupter, but after a lifetime of hearing negatives about our chronotype, I’ll take what I can get.

From New York Times • Aug. 25, 2018

The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck