defalcation

Example Sentences

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The company calls these “third-party factoring irregularities” in its bankruptcy documents, which lawyers for a lender criticized as unduly “euphemistic,” given “the enormity of this potential defalcation.”

From Los Angeles Times

According to the report, county supervisors may suspend Petersen for “defalcation or neglect of duty,” but the statutes do not define the meaning of the terms, officials said.

From Washington Times

“You have a keen sense of defalcation. Perhaps I should add a third D.”

From Literature

Chief among them are Carrodos’s manservant, Parkinson, “an unquenchable stickler for decorum,” and Louis Carlyle, a private investigator specializing in “defalcation and divorce.”

From Washington Post

“This defalcation is exacerbated by her not having told them exactly what she heard, only that she felt comfortable with a guilty verdict,” Judge Duval said.

From New York Times