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Example sentences from the Web for thievingThe underwear was returned to Payne -- but not until after one of the thieving fans tried them on. Gravity’s Space-Diaper Fiasco; Beyoncé Debuts Her First Calendar|The Fashion Beast Team|October 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST Putin is also, for obvious reasons, not a great fan of people-power democracy movements that overthrow corrupt, thieving elites. Putin’s Power Play on Syria|Owen Matthews|September 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST A novel dealing with, among many other interesting things, the aesthetics of thieving. How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov, and Dublin|Noah Charney|October 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST Spacey makes Abramoff an enormously appealing rage-filled, thieving, megalomaniacal sociopath. Jack Abramoff's Redemption|Lloyd Grove|December 17, 2010|DAILY BEAST
But Spacey makes Abramoff an enormously appealing, rage-filled, thieving, megalomaniacal sociopath. Jack Abramoff's Redemption|Lloyd Grove|December 17, 2010|DAILY BEAST "Some thieving Indian, judging from the looks of that boat," said Sam Higgins. The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone|Richard Bonner She measured by it the contempt that had so easily accused her of thieving. Meg's Friend|Alice Abigail Corkran That thieving Deutscher who runs the schooner we had in port over-night told me this not an hour ago. The Argus Pheasant|John Charles Beecham Dr. Whitman gave the Chiefs a reprimand, and called it thieving, and demanded that they send back everything they had taken. How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon|Oliver W. Nixon There, merriment was the produce of thieving; here, the offspring of the same parent was sorrow. At War with Society or, Tales of the Outcasts|James McLevy
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adjectivegiven to stealing other people's possessions Words nearby thievingThiers, thiethylperazine maleate, Thieu, thieve, thievery, thieving, thievish, thigh, thighbone, thigh-high, thigh-slapper Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to thievingcrooked, larcenous, cunning, pilfering, dishonest, fraudulent, furtive, predatory, rapacious, secretive, sly, stealthy, thievish, light-fingered, piratic, plunderous, sticky-fingered |