All defalcation synonyms

noun defalcation

• imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
• loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
• liquidation — the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
• disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
• insolvency — the condition of being insolvent; bankruptcy.
• default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• flaw — Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
• failing — Slang. an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance: Their app update is a massive fail. the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way: His online post is full of fail. a person who fails in this way.
• weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
• defect — A defect is a fault or imperfection in a person or thing.
• dearth — If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it.
• glitch — a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan.
• insufficiency — deficiency in amount, force, power, competence, or fitness; inadequacy: insufficiency of supplies.
• shortcoming — a failure, defect, or deficiency in conduct, condition, thought, ability, etc.: a social shortcoming; a shortcoming of his philosophy.
• scarcity — insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth.
• shortage — a deficiency in quantity: a shortage of cash.
• frailty — the quality or state of being frail.
• fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• shortfall — the quantity or extent by which something falls short; deficiency; shortage.
• misuse — wrong or improper use; misapplication.
• larceny — the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods of another from his or her possession with intent to convert them to the taker's own use.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• misappropriation — to put to a wrong use.
• theft — the act of stealing; the wrongful taking and carrying away of the personal goods or property of another; larceny.
• imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
• incapacity — lack of ability, qualification, or strength; incapability.
• ineffectiveness — not effective; not producing results; ineffectual: ineffective efforts; ineffective remedies.
• ineptitude — quality or condition of being inept.
• inefficiency — the quality or condition of being inefficient; lack of efficiency.
• ruination — the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.
• privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
• nonpayment — failure or neglect to pay: His property was confiscated for nonpayment of taxes.
• destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
• indigence — seriously impoverished condition; poverty.
• indebtedness — the state of being indebted.
• repudiation — the act of repudiating.
• pauperism — the state or condition of utter poverty.
• overdraft — an act or instance of overdrawing a checking account.
• demerit — The demerits of something or someone are their faults or disadvantages.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• paucity — smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.
• scantiness — scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
• absence — Someone's absence from a place is the fact that they are not there.
• dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
• deficit — A deficit is the amount by which something is less than what is required or expected, especially the amount by which the total money received is less than the total money spent.
• want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.