misappropriation

nouns

the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else
defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation
is derived from
misappropriate
wrongful borrowing
"his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory"
misappropriation
is a type of (narrower)
the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
"the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"
adoption, borrowing