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

There still remains, unobserved upon, an instance of his malversation, wholly new in its kind, to which I will venture to desire your Lordships very seriously to turn your attention.

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

We think it a marvellous act of malversation in a trustee, to benefit himself unjustly out of the funds entrusted to his care. 

From The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed by Helps, Arthur, Sir