defalcation

"They're not so frequent as defalcation with us, quite—especially birth," suggested Bellingham.

But I will never suffer the sacred name of economy to be bestowed upon arbitrary defalcation of charge.

Because of the defalcation of her lawyer, she is in financial straits.

His cashier, who is secretly engaged to marry Miss Van Gorder's niece, is suspected of the defalcation and is a fugitive.

First, diversion of the public funds to his own use,—embezzlement or defalcation we should call it.