malversation

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The Inspector General Act was designed to protect patriotic whistle-blowers who seek to reveal malversation in government.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was shown by one of the framers of the impeachment provision, James Wilson, who said that what he had in mind was misbehavior, or what he called "malversation."

From Time Magazine Archive

During a brief job at a large corporation, he impersonates a vice president and summarily fires those who seem unhappy in their work, He is finally caught and dismissed for "malversation of coffee break."

From Time Magazine Archive

His Bermuda deputy was guilty of malversation so considerable that Moore could not meet the debt, and he had to go abroad.

From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George

Six weeks later Alderman Fowke was committed to Fleet Prison by the committee for accompts of the kingdom, presumably on a charge of malversation.

From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Sharpe, Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson)