Skilled at pilfering or pickpocketing; given to stealing.

Given to pilfering.

Given to robbery or stealing; relating to or characteristic of petty theft. Hence: wretched, contemptible.

Deft or skilful with the hands; dexterous, nimble-fingered; light-fingered. Formerly in extended use: †given to cheating or stealing; dishonest; cf…

That filches; pilfering.

Originally: †pilfering (obsolete). In later use: skulking, lurking (cf. malicho, n.); playing truant. Formerly also (occasionally): †pretending…

Given to or characterized by forestalling others at meals, gluttonous. Also, pilfering. Obsolete.

attributive or as adj. Ensnaring; pilfering. Obsolete.

slang. That steals or pilfers.

Full of or having much pitch; coated, smeared, or sticky with pitch. Of a flame or smoke: produced by, or as if by, burning pitch; dark, blackened…

inclined to stealing, thievish; cf. sense 3a.

Raiding for the purpose of plunder; plundering, harrying, ravaging; rampaging. Also in extended use.

Given to or skilled at pilfering or pickpocketing; light-fingered.

figurative. Thievish. (Cf. tarry-fingered adj. at compounds.)

given to stealing, light-fingered; cf. sticky fingers at phrases 1.

That engages in panhandling.

having the fingers or hands smeared with tar; figurative thievish.