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n. A person who peculates; an embezzler

n. One who peculates.

n. One who peculates; an embezzler; a defaulter.

n. someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

"The conflict was carried through in a mood sometimes of brutish irritability and sometimes of lax slovenliness, the merry peculator plied his trade congenially in that asinine squabble, and behind these fooleries and masked by them, marched Fate — until at last the clowning of the booth opened and revealed — hunger and suffering, brands burning and swords and shame ...."

cheat    stealer    thief    beguiler    deceiver    trickster    slicker    cheater   

embezzler    extortionist    pilferer    defaulter    bellboy    corrupter    revolutionist    backslider    trespasser