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peculate
[ pek-yuh-leyt ]
verb (used with or without object)
- to steal or take dishonestly (money, especially public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.
peculate
/ ˈɛʊˌɪ /
verb
- to appropriate or embezzle (public money)
Derived Forms
- ˈˌٴǰ, noun
- ˌˈپDz, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- u·tDz noun
- u·tǰ noun
- ܲ·u·iԲ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of peculate1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of peculate1
Example Sentences
It would appear that many charges of the biographers were made upon the authority of a peculating servant whom Bront� had angered by dismissal.
He was once the Shah’s Prime Minister: he peculated, and was disgraced.
He is coarse, uneducated, and vulgar; he never picked up any semblance of the class from whom he peculated; and has lived on, as he began, a "low comedy villain," and no more.
He knows how pedants hoodwink people, how priests act the hypocrite, how physicians act the rake, how lawyers peculate.
Or shall I tell him the story of Davoust at Hamburg, when the Syndicate accused him of peculating, and mentioned some millions that he had abstracted from the treasury.
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