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

Yet every attempt of his enemies to convict him of extortion or malversation broke signally down.

From Claverhouse by Morris, Mowbray

The charges of professional malversation he pronounced too absurd for notice; that the practice was not only allowable but often imperative.

From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by West, John