peculate
[ pek-yuh-leyt ]
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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No man ever paid a bribe for the handling of the public money, but to peculate from it.
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR PECULATE
- abscond
- appropriate
- bereave
- break into
- burglarize
- burgle
- cheat
- con
- cop
- defalcate
- defraud
- despoil
- disinherit
- dispossess
- divest
- do out of
- embezzle
- filch
- heist
- hijack
- hold up
- hustle
- liberate
- lift
- loot
- lose
- mug
- oust
- peculate
- pilfer
- pillage
- pinch
- plunder
- promote
- purloin
- raid
- ransack
- relieve
- requisition
- rifle
- rip off
- roll
- sack
- scrounge
- snitch
- stick up
- strip
- strong-arm
- swindle
- swipe
- take
- thieve
- withhold
- abscond
- appropriate
- bereave
- break into
- burglarize
- burgle
- cheat
- con
- cop
- defalcate
- defraud
- despoil
- disinherit
- dispossess
- divest
- do out of
- embezzle
- filch
- heist
- hijack
- hold up
- hustle
- liberate
- lift
- loot
- lose
- mug
- oust
- peculate
- pilfer
- pillage
- pinch
- plunder
- promote
- purloin
- raid
- ransack
- relieve
- requisition
- rifle
- rip off
- roll
- sack
- scrounge
- snitch
- stick up
- strip
- strong-arm
- swindle
- swipe
- take
- thieve
- withhold
- abscond
- appropriate
- bereave
- break into
- burglarize
- burgle
- cheat
- con
- cop
- defalcate
- defraud
- despoil
- disinherit
- dispossess
- divest
- do out of
- embezzle
- filch
- heist
- hijack
- hold up
- hustle
- liberate
- lift
- loot
- lose
- mug
- oust
- peculate
- pilfer
- pillage
- pinch
- plunder
- promote
- purloin
- raid
- ransack
- relieve
- requisition
- rifle
- rip off
- roll
- sack
- scrounge
- snitch
- stick up
- strip
- strong-arm
- swindle
- swipe
- take
- thieve
- withhold
- abduct
- appropriate
- blackmail
- burglarize
- carry off
- cheat
- cozen
- defraud
- despoil
- divert
- embezzle
- heist
- hold for ransom
- hold up
- housebreak
- keep
- kidnap
- lift
- loot
- make off with
- misappropriate
- peculate
- pilfer
- pillage
- pinch
- pirate
- plagiarize
- plunder
- poach
- purloin
- ransack
- remove
- rifle
- rip off
- run off with
- sack
- shoplift
- snitch
- spirit away
- stick up
- strip
- swindle
- swipe
- take
- take possession of
- thieve
- walk off with
- withdraw
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.