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malappropriation

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Misappropriation.

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Examples

  • He said work on information systems of computers needed to be improved so as to avoid malappropriation of funds.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Bold had often expressed his indignation at the malappropriation of church funds in general, in the hearing of his friend the precentor; but the conversation had never referred to anything at

    The Warden 2004

  • Bold had often expressed his indignation at the malappropriation of church funds in general, in the hearing of his friend the precentor; but the conversation had never referred to anything at Barchester; and when Finney, the attorney, induced him to interfere with the affairs of the hospital, it was against Mr Chadwick that his efforts were to be directed.

    The Warden Anthony Trollope 1848

  • That worthy Mentor, perceiving that there was an inherent turn for dissipation and extravagance in our hero, resolved magnanimously rather to bring upon himself the sins of treachery and malappropriation than suffer his friend and former pupil to incur those of wastefulness and profusion.

    Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • That worthy Mentor, perceiving that there was an inherent turn for dissipation and extravagance in our hero, resolved magnanimously rather to bring upon himself the sins of treachery and malappropriation than suffer his friend and former pupil to incur those of wastefulness and profusion.

    Paul Clifford — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Stockholm, and in deprecating the malappropriation of the former, Porter says, "The situation of this capital deserves finer edifices.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827 Various

  • Those on episcopal residence, pluralism, episcopal jurisdiction, the censure of books, and the malappropriation of endowments, are specially valuable. [

    Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction John Addington Symonds 1866

  • "I told them," said Tennyson, "that they had been guilty of malappropriation, and though I was not quite sure whether the coins belonged to me or to the Crown, that they certainly had no right to them.

    Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

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