Crossword-Solution: EMBEZZLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Embezzle | v. t. | To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust. |
| Embezzle | v. t. | To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “EMBEZZLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| steal money that has been entrusted to one | 1 answer |
| Steal from funds entrusted to one's care. | 1 answer |
| Skim off the top | 1 answer |
| Misappropriate (funds) | 1 answer |
| Defraud in a way | 1 answer |
| Appropriate fraudulently | 1 answer |
| peculate | 2 answers |
| Take wrong? | 2 answers |
| APPROPRIATE FRAUDULENTLY TO ONE'S OWN USE | 10 answers |
| misappropriate | 11 answers |
| Welsh | 18 answers |
| Rob | 40 answers |
| Defraud | 41 answers |
| diddle | 52 answers |
| Steal | 64 answers |
| Swindle | 67 answers |
| blackmail | 73 answers |
| fiddle | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with EMBEZZLE (5)
The Athenians might fairly except against the practice of Democritus, to be buried up in honey, as fearing to embezzle a great commodity of their country, and the best of that kind in Europe.
The mortality to which the depositors were peculiarly liable had formed a basis for _Trompe-la-Mort’s_ calculations when he resolved to embezzle the funds for Lucien’s benefit.
Coningsby's speculations are described thus: "Vast quantities of stores did he Embezzle and purloin Of the King's stores he kept a key, Converting them to coin.
Wolf to do? Could he sub-embezzle a Highlander's breeks? Could he subtract more than her skin from off the singed cat? Could he peel the core of a rotten apple? Could he pare a grated cheese rind? Could he flay a skinned flint? Could he fleece a hog after Satan had shaved it as clean as a bantam's egg? Let no man dare to limit genius; least of all the genius of extortion.
You are not, I hope, of a lazy, inactive turn, in either body or mind; and, in that case, the day is full long enough for everything; especially at Rome, where it is not the fashion, as it is here and at Paris, to embezzle at least half of it at table.
Quotes with EMBEZZLE (1)
I got interested in the idea that love is often used as a kind of blanket explanation for things. I mean, battered wives, for instance: "Why did you go back to him?" "Oh, I loved him." "Why did you embezzle fifteen million pounds and run away to the other side of the world?" "Oh, well, because I was in love." All that and then you don't ask anything else. I thought if I just say, these people needed love and they found it, then it kind of explained it away. I wanted to look a…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1953–2008).