Evil conduct; improper or wicked behavior; mean artifices, or fraudulent tricks.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
Prodigality Roget’s Thesaurus §818
N. prodigality, prodigence|, unthriftiness, waste, profusion, profuseness, extravagance, squandering, malversation, prodigal, spendthrift, waste thrift, losel, squanderer, locust, high roller*
V. be prodigal, squander, lavish, sow broadcast, pour forth like water, blow, blow in*, pay through the nose, spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable, run out, run through, misspend, throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet, burn the candle at both ends, make ducks and drakes of one's money, fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money, pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, manger son ble en herbe
Adj. prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel, extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal, full-handed, penny wise and pound foolish
Adv. with an unsparing hand, money burning a hole in one's pocket
Phr. amor nummi, facile largiri de alieno, wie gewonnen so zerronnen, les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent, "spendthrift alike of money and of wit", "squandering wealth was his peculiar art"
Guilt Roget’s Thesaurus §947
N. guilt, guiltiness, culpability, criminality, criminousness, deviation from rectitude, sinfulness, misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed, malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression, dereliction, delinquency, indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo, flaw, blot, omission, failing, failure, break, bad break |, [U.S.], capital crime, delictum, offense, trespass, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, malefaction, malfeasance, malversation, crime, felony, enormity, atrocity, outrage, deadly sin, mortal sin, "deed without a name", corpus delicti
Adj. guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable, weighed in the balance and found wanting, exceptionable
Adv. in flagrante delicto, red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar
Phr. cui prodest scelus in fecit, culpam paena premit comes, "o would the deed were good!", "responsibility prevents crimes" se judice nemo nocens absolvitur, "so many laws argues so many sins"
No Bible verses found for "Malversation".
