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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
defalcate .
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Examples
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And though the couple shared in whatever fortune may have been defalcated, it is generally agreed that Zardari was more the rotten apple of the pair.
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The money so defalcated were allegedly used in part to give gifts of air conditioners, furniture and other house hold items to their superiors by the accused staff members.
Supreme Court Orders Investigation Against 26 Judges for Receiving Favors 2008
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In the movie, two men brutally raped, beat, defalcated and urinated on Samuel Jackson's daughter, and left her in a ditch to die.
Etan Thomas: Memo to Huckabee: Jesus would not be Pro Death Penalty 2008
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The plasterers were hindered; the painters misunderstood orders; the paperers have defalcated, and the universe generally comes to a pause.
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Robespierre, on the extreme Left, with perhaps Petion and lean old Goupil, for the very Triumvirate has defalcated, are shrieking hoarse; drowned in Constitutional clamour.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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My Dear Emerson, -- What a time since we have written to one another! was it you that defalcated?
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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One would have thought the natural method in a plan of reformation would be, to take the present existing estimates as they stand; and then to show what may be practicably and safely defalcated from them.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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Obama defalcated the trust, hopes, and dreams of millions of Americans by promising their fulfillment, an era of change, and reverting to an FDR / LBJ / Carter / Clinton style politics.
Latest Articles 2009
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The stockbroker defalcated millions from investment clients.
Latest Articles 2009
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Rs 13 crores have been defalcated in just one year from one place.
SiliconIndia.com 2009
jaime_d commented on the word defalcated
from Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011