The Collaborative International Dictionary
embezzled \embezzled\ adj. 1. taken for one's own use in violation of a trust; -- of money; as, the banker absconded with embezzled payroll; the embezzled funds amounted to millions of dollars.
Syn: misappropriated.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: embezzle)
WordNet
adj. taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the banker absconded with embezzled funds" [syn: misappropriated]
taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the embezzled funds amounted to millions of dollars"
Usage examples of "embezzled".
He's got sense enough to know that if he and his accomplice pay back all the money Harry embezzled, they won't have any operating capital.
He embezzled a great deal of my money, destroyed my career, made me an object of pity and ridicule in the tabloid press.
That I embezzled from Bittle to keep Pretenses afloat, and I'm not having it.
Pepper said, “to be a shortage of approximately $76,000, evidently embezzled over a period of some years.
The shortage would have appeared, and everybody in the world would have said he'd embezzled county funds to play the market.
Ellen MacGowan had lived six years with her father's body buried beneath the cellar floor and had embezzled thousands of dollars to save his name and her pride.
Big Oysters Pok said, thinking, I know how much was embezzled but why should I tell him?
You didn't know or care that his money was embezzled from an income-tax evader.
They were both killed by Giles because they had just found out he had embezzled all the capital and the bloodstock business was bankrupt.