The employee's defalcation resulted in her dismissal from the job. From LearnThat.org.
The terms defalcation, misappropriation, and other fiscal irregularities refer to, but are not limited to. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 18] Reference
The amount of the defalcation is variously estimated at from two and a half to five millions, involving in losses several bankers and brokers. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign and Colonial Intelligence] Reference
But the government school monopolists and Democrats want you to believe that protecting waste, incompetence and defalcation is for the children!. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Eliminating accountability ... for the children!] Reference
Yesterday's term was defalcation, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Define That Term #35] Reference
Management believes the defalcation will be a covered loss, less the deductible. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
But a defalcation which occurred immediately afterwards was worse. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
Ireland and to recoup itself in proportion to the defalcation in any county. From Wordnik.com. [Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union] Reference
Does this litany of theft, fraud, and deliberate defalcation constitute aberrant behavior?. From Wordnik.com. [Caveat Emptor, Congress!] Reference
It appeared in evidence that the defalcation on the account for wine alone amounted to L. 1500. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
First, diversion of the public funds to his own use, -- embezzlement or defalcation we should call it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
He could not conceal his defalcation, and there was no longer a shadow of hope of replacing the money. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference
He had started on his visitations the next day after Pio's defalcation, and in anything but good temper. From Wordnik.com. [The Penance of Magdalena & Other Tales of the California Missions] Reference
His defalcation would be sure to come to the ears of this body and a public investigation might well follow. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
This defalcation was not to be overlooked, nor should Khamisi be permitted to return without an effort to apprehend him. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
At one time there was a charge of defalcation against him, but nothing specific, and Nichols concludes that nothing really was wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918] Reference
The imperial government were bound to make good the Receiver General's defalcation, and they would address His Majesty on the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Even after the defalcation was made known there was nothing to indicate that any part of the money had been appropriated to his own use. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts of Reconstruction] Reference
In permitting a temporary defalcation from your treasury, you consider yourselves as only lending out your capital at more usurious interest. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
His father, his predecessor in the Receiver Generalship, had left him a defalcation of £40,000 to be made good from a salary of £500 a year. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
So great a change had taken place in the captain's mind regarding ourselves that I am not quite sure he mourned at all for the defalcation of our male escort. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island] Reference
It is a just subject of congratulation that, during the last year, there has been among these officers no instance of fraud, defalcation, or gross neglect of duty. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
But his trial for bribery, of which mention has been made, his removal as state printer, and his defalcation as postmaster, prostrated him financially and politically. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Mr. Woolson had, in 1845, succeeded in getting his business into a flourishing condition, when, through the defalcation of a trusted partner, he was very nearly ruined. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
The way in which this defalcation was so long concealed and the steps taken to indemnify the United States, as far as practicable, against loss will also be presented to you. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
On Monday I came on the first trace of defalcation. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Galley Impressions and Tales] Reference
Hampton's defalcation at the village bank, and had a seat at the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X)] Reference
In this way month after month passed, until the defalcation rose to over a thousand dollars. From Wordnik.com. [Home Lights and Shadows] Reference
He would either win a considerable stake or have sufficient in hand to cover up his defalcation. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
He was suspected of serious defalcation, and the citizens of his native town turned against him. From Wordnik.com. [The Desired Woman] Reference
Mr. Hartley listened with an abstracted air, for his thoughts were upon the defalcation of the man before him. From Wordnik.com. [The Telegraph Boy] Reference
What, then, was the cause of Griffo's defalcation, and who had inspired him to this signal piece of treachery?. From Wordnik.com. [The God of Love] Reference
America, Asia, have all fallen off; but the defalcation has been made good by the United States, which have increased their growth by. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series One] Reference
Tacitus himself at 600,000; and that the largest defalcation, that his accepimus can justify, will still leave them more numerous than the. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5] Reference
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