- embezzled, misappropriated - taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the banker absconded with embezzled funds"
Antonym: legal (indirect, via illegal)
- embezzled - taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the embezzled funds amounted to millions of dollars"
Antonym: given (indirect, via taken)
- embezzle, defalcate, peculate, misappropriate, malversate - appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family"
--1 is one way to steal
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun embezzlement1, noun embezzler1
They embezzle the money