malversation
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The Inspector General Act was designed to protect patriotic whistle-blowers who seek to reveal malversation in government.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was shown by one of the framers of the impeachment provision, James Wilson, who said that what he had in mind was misbehavior, or what he called "malversation."
From Time Magazine Archive
During a brief job at a large corporation, he impersonates a vice president and summarily fires those who seem unhappy in their work, He is finally caught and dismissed for "malversation of coffee break."
From Time Magazine Archive
On the 12th of January 1794 he was arrested by order of the committee of public safety on a charge of malversation and forgery in connexion with the affairs of the Compagnie des Indes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
Claverhouse is accused of oppression by excessive fines and illegal quartering of troops, of malversation, and so forth; but of taking man's life unlawfully there is no single word.
From Claverhouse by Morris, Mowbray
