Malversation definition

mălvər-sāshən
Misconduct in public office.
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(law) Corrupt conduct or fraudulent practices, as in public office.
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Corrupt behaviour, illegitimate activity, especially by someone in authority.
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Noun

Singular:
malversation
Plural:
malversations

Origin of malversation

  • French from malverser to misbehave from Old French from Latin male versārī male badly mel-3 in Indo-European roots versārī to behave wer-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French malversation, from malverser, from Latin male versari ("behave badly").

    From Wiktionary

Malversation Sentence Examples

  • Tweed and members of the "Tweed Ring," and published Peculation Triumphant, Being the Record of a Five Years' Campaign against Official Malversation, A.D.

  • A few years later he incurred the royal disfavour for gross malversation in the administration of public property, and failing to compromise matters with the king, fled to Germany and engaged in political intrigues with the adventurer Wilhelm von Grumbach (1503-1567) for the purpose of dethroning Frederick II.

  • The magistracy had been acquiring more and more the character of an oligarchy; all power was practically in the hands of a few closely-related families; and the gravest peculation and malversation took place without hindrance.

  • Griffenfeldt, who was charged with simony, bribery, oath-breaking, malversation and lese-majeste, conducted his own defence under every imaginable difficulty.

  • The enemies of Pericles, who even with the aid of Spartan intrigue had hitherto, failed to harm his prestige, now succeeded in inducing the desperate citizens to fine him for alleged malversation.

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