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misappropriated

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mis·ap·pro·pri·ate  (ms-prpr-t)
tr.v. mis·ap·pro·pri·at·ed, mis·ap·pro·pri·at·ing, mis·ap·pro·pri·ates
1.
a. To appropriate wrongly: misappropriating the theories of social science.
b. To appropriate dishonestly for one's own use; embezzle.
2. To use illegally.
misap·propri·ation n.
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Adj.1.misappropriated - taken for your own use in violation of a trust; "the banker absconded with embezzled funds"
embezzled
illegal - prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move"
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Levin was surprised that they should dispute upon this subject so long, especially as, when he asked Sergey Ivanovitch whether he supposed that money had been misappropriated, Sergey Ivanovitch answered:
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
This incident only suggested to the widow's mind, when they halted at an alehouse some miles further on, and heard the justice's character as given by his friends, that perhaps something more than capacity of stomach and tastes for the kennel and the stable, were required to form either a perfect country gentleman, a thoroughbred Englishman, or a genuine John Bull; and that possibly the terms were sometimes misappropriated, not to say disgraced.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
It was the gentleman Clennam had seen on the night of his own accidental detention there, who had that impalpable grievance about the misappropriated Fund on which the Marshal was supposed to batten.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
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