malversation

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)corrupt behaviour, illegitimate activity, especially by someone in authority

   “the euyl exempil of ther maluersatione prouokyt the pepil til adhere to vice & to detest vertu.”

   “The Decreet was for Sallary, and it was offered to be proven, that Rue (for his Malverſation) was by warrand from General Monk, excluded from Collection that year.”

   “The walī looked angrily on my brother, saying: ‘Shameless ill-doer, it is quite clear from these marks upon your back that you have practised every sort of crime and malversation.’”

   “I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation.”

   “In addition to their absolute power they were wasteful and extravagant, their malversations were constant and enormous, and they treated the local whites with an arrogance and superciliousness that galled these little potentates with their two or three hundred slaves.”