kleptocraticadj.

1851 Spectator 1 Mar. 206/1 An English Gil Blas,..abounding in novel and striking traits of character, social, democratic, and kleptocratic.

1892 Worker (Brisbane) 9 July 1/1 The tenderly nurtured, kleptocratic, highly-paid, gentlemanly being who supports the whole state on his shoulders.

1914 Science 30 Jan. 156/1 The exploitation of children, sex slavery, industrial servitude, kleptocratic classes, have become wanton and intolerable.

1938 Sci. Monthly Jan. 82 Scientific men have come in the main from the kleptocratic classes or have been absorbed into these classes.

2001 Business Week 12 Nov. 70/1 After a decade of robber baron capitalism that burned Western investors, these bosses now say that kleptocratic practices proved a dead end for a country with an annual gross domestic product of $300 billion.