peculate

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

It would appear that many charges of the biographers were made upon the authority of a peculating servant whom Bront� had angered by dismissal.

From Project Gutenberg

He was once the Shah’s Prime Minister: he peculated, and was disgraced.

From Project Gutenberg

He is coarse, uneducated, and vulgar; he never picked up any semblance of the class from whom he peculated; and has lived on, as he began, a "low comedy villain," and no more.

From Project Gutenberg

He knows how pedants hoodwink people, how priests act the hypocrite, how physicians act the rake, how lawyers peculate.

From Project Gutenberg

Or shall I tell him the story of Davoust at Hamburg, when the Syndicate accused him of peculating, and mentioned some millions that he had abstracted from the treasury.

From Project Gutenberg