Both Uses
embezzle
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- Jack Fleming embezzling to gamble then smuggled off to America.†
Chpt 5 *
- As less reprehensible than theft, highway robbery, cruelty to children and animals, obtaining money under false pretences, forgery, embezzlement, misappropriation of public money, betrayal of public trust, malingering, mayhem, corruption of minors, criminal libel, blackmail, contempt of court, arson, treason, felony, mutiny on the high seas, trespass, burglary, jailbreaking, practice of unnatural vice, desertion from armed forces in the field, perjury, poaching, usury, intelligence with the king's enemies, impersonation, criminal assault, manslaughter, wilful and premeditated murder.†
Chpt 17
Definitions:
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(1)
(embezzle) to use a position of trust and management to steal
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)