peculation
Example Sentences
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“He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression,” he said, according to the minutes.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2019
“He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation or oppression. He might betray his trust to foreign powers.”
From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019
Quite the contrary, he is said to have chafed angrily in private at the peculation he saw among other high government officials.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole town knows of his peculation, accepts it philosophically : "Hit's nachel — hit's nachel . . . evahthing what's bad is nachel."
From Time Magazine Archive
The money went into the pockets of the Admiralty clerks and paymasters, who thrived on wholesale and shameless peculation.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
