| The salaries attached to the various posts were ridiculously inadequate, and the holders had to peculate in order to exist, if for nothing else. |
| He undertakes to manage affairs in connexion with the dykes uprightly and justly, and swears that he will not peculate himself or allow any one else to do so. |
| We can steal a pace or grab some space, smuggle secrets, rustle sheep, kidnap, snaffle, hustle, embezzle, pluck, plunder, peculate or appropriate. |
| Momentarily it seemed he might find an even broader field in which to peculate. |
| He was not quite sure about the last thought but it seemed to fit in with the rest of his thinking so he left the thought to peculate into something more acceptable. |
| No man ever paid a bribe for the handling of the public money, but to peculate from it. |
