burglarious
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- burglariously adverb
Etymology
Origin of burglarious
Example Sentences
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Can your ingenuity suggest no explanation of a man's presence in another man's house at midnight save a burglarious motive?
From The Come Back by Wells, Carolyn
“Exactly behind that is a room occupied by one no more burglarious than a dressmaker’s apprentice.”
From The Flaw in the Sapphire by Snyder, Charles M.
This nefarious scheme was undertaken, but at the moment when the burglarious pr�v�t put out his hand to seize the cross, he was suddenly stricken with blindness.
From Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 by Walton, William
Flint, standing watching me with his burglarious bundle under his arm, gave an irrepressible chuckle and his eyes crinkled.
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway
Hoskins was sincerely delighted to have the opportunity to meet his burglarious friends, and he lost no time in dressing and descending to the dining-room.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
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