malversation

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Thus their malversations in office are supported, instead of being checked by the Company.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

He did not even shrink from defending, from considerations of political convenience, the malversations of a colleague.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch by Morley, John

He then recounts numerous abuses and malversations on the part of the governor.

From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis

He accused the ministers of falsehoods, malversations, and all kinds of offences.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 386, August 22, 1829 by Various

Another tribunal was afterwards established, under the title of the Chambre de l'Arsenal, which took cognizance of all the malversations committed in the financial departments of the government during the late unhappy period.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Mackay, Charles