Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Misconduct in public office.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Evil conduct; fraudulent or tricky dealing; especially, misbehavior in an office or employment, as by fraud, breach of trust, extortion, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
corrupt behaviour, illegitimate activity, especially by someone in authority
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun misconduct in public office
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Secondly by the flight and voluntary desertion of the younger Fairford, the advocate; on account of which, he served both father and son with a petition and complaint against them, for malversation in office.
Redgauntlet 2008
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On the heels of the revelation that Santorum has a mortgage at market rate and that he does not himself pay for work-related expenses comes the news that he established a charity that pays out money to the needy, which is clearly a malversation.
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What's more, I believe the voice of millions of netizens will bring justice, fairness, democracy and social progress, and face the corruption and malversation down.
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Cases at Saint Helena, alluding to a confidential servant whom he had been obliged to dismiss for malversation.
Eve and David 2007
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There are magnificent avenues of elm-trees, great gardens encircled by the moat, and a circumference of walls about a huge manorial pile which represents the profits of the maltote, the gains of farmers-general, legalized malversation, or the vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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Cases at Saint Helena, alluding to a confidential servant whom he had been obliged to dismiss for malversation.
Eve and David 2007
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Adam Smith warned that monopoly leads to negligence and malversation and undermines liberty and justice.
Richard Corbett Watch Praguetory 2007
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For in the prevalence of sense and spirit over stupidity and malversation, all reasonable men have an interest; and as intellectual beings we feel the air purified by the electric shock, when material force is overthrown by intellectual energies.
Representative Men 2006
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Director, certainly; for he hinted at malversation of shares: but the Company still stood as united as the Hand-inHand, and as firm as the Rock.
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She had been born, but it was only gossip said so, in Tasmania: her grandfather had been exported for some hanky-panky mid-Victorian scandal; malversation of trusts was it?
Between the Acts 2004
yarb commented on the word malversation
He accumulated wealth by the basest arts of fraud and corruption; but his malversations were so notorious, that George was compelled to escape from the pursuits of justice.
- Gibbon, Decline and Fall..., XXIII. v
June 9, 2009
qms commented on the word malversation
The stories appall the whole nation.
The villains outrage in rotation.
True, winners take spoils,
But conscience recoils
At boldness of such malversation.
October 4, 2017
yarb commented on the word malversation
"Mr. Jolter was desired to write in the masters name to the commodore, requesting him to remove Tom Pipes from the person of his nephew, the said Pipes being a principal actor and abettor in all his malversations..."
— Smollett, Peregrine Pickle
January 17, 2022