Associations to the word «Misappropriated»

Wiktionary

MISAPPROPRIATE, verb. To use something wrongly, or illegally
MISAPPROPRIATE, verb. To embezzle

Dictionary definition

MISAPPROPRIATE, verb. Appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use; "The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne