defalcation

1 The fact was, he said, that the business transactions between her father and himself, consequent upon the defalcation of her brother Eustace, had never been closed, in all these seventeen years.

2 When the defalcations of Treasurer Robinson came to be suspected, Mr. Lee insisted with firmness, in the face of a proud and embittered opposition, on an investigation of the treasury.

3 Absconding agents, swindling schemes, and defalcations, occurring in such melancholy abundance, have at length ceased to be wonders, and rank with the common accidents of fire and flood.

4 The sum was not large as defalcations go.

5 "The steward set it on fire to conceal the defalcation in the crop."

6 A suit brought by him in the United States district court to recover possession of the Zion City property, valued at two millions sterling, was unsuccessful, and his defalcations were fully proved.

7 And in every one of them was an account of the defalcation and suicide of the Honorable Alonzo D. Pawling, president of the Shadow Hill Trust Company.

8 The Lord Chancellor should be made responsible for the Chancery defalcations.

9 Jim said: “If Mr. Pawling is the very rich man you say he is, he’s not going to let the defalcation of this fellow, Puma, destroy such a paying property.”

10 The rumor of Elijah's defalcation had not disturbed Seymour seriously.

11 At the session of November, 1766, Mr. John Robinson, who had for many years held the offices of speaker and treasurer, being now dead, an investigation of his accounts exposed an enormous defalcation.

12 “You have a keen sense of defalcation. Perhaps I should add a third D.”

13 At Ferrara are some remains of stalls in the apse of the Cathedral which were commissioned from Bernardino da Lendinara in 1501, though not made by him owing to the defalcations of a dishonest steward.

14 Yet the prejudice in favour of the mysterious authority that was expected to issue decrees from the Vatican207 did not wait till the clear light of criticism was shed upon its eccentricities and its defalcations.

15 Another, about the meaning of the word “defalcation” in the Bankruptcy Code, must have made Justice Stephen G. Breyer, its author, wonder what he had done to deserve the assignment.

16 But one day Mr. Martin was charged with serious defalcation.

但有一天，马丁先生被控告严重挪用公款。

17 Among the main sewers of corruption were there purpresture upon false accounts and receipts, enrichment unjustly by their official power, and defalcation in their own business etc.

虚报帐目、冒销侵占，凭借职权巧取豪夺以及挪用公款经商等成了主要的贪污手段。

18 Because of the defalcation of her lawyer, she is in financial straits.

19 Excuses indeed are not easily to be offered for Pope's moral defalcations.

20 Great grants and defalcations from Virginia, 47 59.

1 缺点

spot vice fault weakness stain defect deficiency flaw minus shortcoming imperfection smudge demerit

2 不履行契约

default

3 挪用

diversion alienation touch appropriate collar divert embezzle misappropriate misapply impropriate

4 盗用公款

defalcate cook the books malversation

5 不履行

nonfeasance non-fulfilment Welsh

6 挪用公款

peculate

7 侵吞委托金

defalcate

8 削减

cut downhold reduction slash drawdown cutback retrenchment abridgment dockage cutdown dent detruncate defalcate reduce trim chop dock pinch shorten whack curtail whittle pare abridge elide retrench minify razee