malversation

And here's a word I never knew, but can use: malversation, "official corruption."

"Just tell him I want to have a malversation.")

In 22 AD he was accused of malversation (misconduct).

The master in revenue laid an accusation of waste and malversation of stores against his captain.

He was imprisoned and sentenced to two years of prison on May, 1994 for malversation of funds of the so-called secret fund.

Several days later Floyd was indicted for malversation in office, although the indictment was overruled in 1861 on technical grounds.

Smith was widely suspected of malversation, and in February 1696 he was questioned by the House of Commons over his accounts.

But the loss occasioned by the negligence, profusion, and malversation of the servants of the company had probably been a tax much heavier than all those duties.

Griffenfeld, who was charged with simony, bribery, oath-breaking, malversation and lèse-majesté, conducted his own defence under every imaginable difficulty.

It was Trolle whom Frederik II appointed to investigate the charges of malversation brought against Oxe.

In a letter to Lord Carlisle, justifying his action, FitzWilliam mentioned that malversation had been imputed to Beresford.

I see old-fashioned American lechery, greed, conspiracy and malversation, restaurants upset by your camaraderie, the odd luckless midlevel chump rolled and left in the gutter.

May 26 - The show trial against Griffenfeld ends with his conviction of all charges against him for simony, bribery, oath-breaking, malversation and lèse-majestéand and treason.

The Field Investigation Office anchored its recommendations on an alleged violation of Article 217 of the Revised Penal Code, or malversation of funds.

He discovered that Esterhazy had been under suspicion of malversation in Tunis and of espionage; he learned that Major Esterhazy was constantly absent from his garrison.

Loss of employment as the result of an uninvestigated charge of neglect of duty or malversation was not the only threat hanging over the head of an officer of the revenue.

He later studied at Salamanca and Alcalá, and from 1571 to 1588 held a post in the treasury; in 1594 he was arrested on suspicion of malversation, but was speedily released.

As a disinterested commentator, I wrote at the time that President Nixon was impeachable: either as a knowing conspirator or as an incompetent, guilty of the old crime of malversation.

This clause of the bill was however amended with the motion that the case be tried before fifteen hundred jurors in the ordinary way, whether one wanted to call it a prosecution for embezzlement and bribery, or malversation.

The great increase of their fortune had, it seems, only served to furnish their servants with a pretext for greater profusion, and a cover for greater malversation, than in proportion even to that increase of fortune.

On 12 January 1794 Fabre was arrested by order of the Committee of Public Safety on a charge of malversation and forgery in connection with the affairs of the French East India Company.

Nevertheless, he was an excellent man of business, inexorable in punishing malversation and dishonesty on the part of others, and opposed to ruinous court expenditures that was the bane of almost all European monarchies in his day.

For in the prevalence of sense and spirit over stupidity and malversation, all reasonable men have an interest; and as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies.

O'Brian casts Melville's impeachment for malversation of public monies as a political attack using naval intelligence spending, the details of which cannot be disclosed for security and the safety of intelligence agents-such as Stephen Maturin.

Fresh charges of malversation were brought against him in 1635, and, after threatening to resign office, he announced that all intercourse between the Lord Deputy and himself was at an end, and that he should leave his case with the king.