If found guilty of corruption or peculation, they are imprisoned for three years in a bagnio. |
She considered herself engaged to be married to a Scotch propaganda officer who had been dismissed for peculation and gone home to sell cars. |
Whether royal servants consistently made fortunes from fees and peculation seems doubtful. |
They have no compunction about robbing their government by peculation, but treachery is not their mtier. |
She replied that if his Highness's presents were accounted to her as peculation, she had been guilty. |
Another ill effect of the exclusion would be the temptation to sordid views, to peculation, and, in some instances, to usurpation. |