DEFALCATION

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DEFALCATION

Postby engineer27 » Wed Feb 25, 2009 2:21 pm

noun: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

A topical word, actually seen in a job posting on the FDIC's web site as follows:

Under law, FDIC may not employ any person who
has:
....
3) demonstrated a pattern or practice of
defalcation regarding obligations to insured
depository institutions;
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Postby Perry » Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:18 pm

Defalcators seem to defecate on those who trusted them.
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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Postby skinem » Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:49 pm

Defalcators seem to defecate on those who trusted them.
All too often in the news recently...
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Postby Slava » Sat Feb 28, 2009 6:58 pm

Defalcators seem to defecate on those who trusted them.
Is this why we're down in the dumps?
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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Postby Slava » Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:15 pm

Poo! Bad pun! That might better have been:

Is this why we're all feeling dumped upon?
Life is like playing chess with chessmen who each have thoughts and feelings and motives of their own.
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Postby Slava » Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:18 pm

Would this be a good time to get crapulous? Or, given the current season, perhaps that should be crapulent?

http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/crapulence
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Postby Stargzer » Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:59 am

So, would a commedian with a split personality who stole from himself be a practitioner of self-defalcating humor?
Regards//Larry

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Postby Perry » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:35 am

:lol:
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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