defalcation

[ dee-fal-key-shuh n, -fawl- ]

SEE DEFINITION OF defalcation

as ininadequacy
as inbankruptcy
as inshortage
as inscantiness
as inscantness
as inscarceness
as inunderage
as indeficiency
as indeficit
as inembezzlement

Antonyms for defalcation

deficiencies

noun. imperfection, inadequacy

deficiency

noun. imperfection, inadequacy

deficit

noun. shortage of something needed, required

deficits

noun. shortage of something needed, required

embezzlement

noun. stealing money, often from employer

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., from Medieval Latin defalcationem (nominative defalcatio), noun of action from past participle stem of defalcare, from de- + Latin falx, falcem "sickle, scythe, pruning hook."

Example Sentences fordefalcation

But nothing yet concerning the defalcation and disappearance of Angelo Puma.

Evidently there had been a defalcation on rather a large scale.

The rumor of Elijah's defalcation had not disturbed Seymour seriously.

And with all this there was a defalcation traceable to Hope Mills or the Eastmans.

The steward set it on fire to conceal the defalcation in the crop.

I knew all about the defalcation from my father just after the meeting.

Did you read the account of the defalcation in the Events—when it first came out?

The letter purported to be an excuse for the writer's own defalcation.

But a defalcation which occurred immediately afterwards was worse.

Because of the defalcation of her lawyer, she is in financial straits.