- embezzled, misappropriated - taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the banker absconded with embezzled funds"
Antonym: legal (indirect, via illegal)
- 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 sentences:Derived form: noun misappropriation1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something from somebody