MALVERSATIONS Synonyms

• cruel or inhumane treatment

• a rude expression intended to offend or hurt

• improper or excessive use

• treat badly

• change the inherent purpose or function of something

• use foul or abusive language towards

• use wrongly or improperly or excessively

• an act of deliberate betrayal

• the quality of aiding an enemy

• a deception for profit to yourself

• not faithful to a spouse or lover

• violating accepted standards or rules

• lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

• in a state of progressive putrefaction

• decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

• destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity

• inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the quality of being dishonest

• lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

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

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

• the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

• the act of grafting something onto something else

• cause to grow together parts from different plants

• place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

• exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage

• the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means

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

• wrongful borrowing

• bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf

• activity that transgresses moral or civil law

• behave badly

• manage badly or incompetently

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• deprive of by deceit