burglarious
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This breach of burglarious custom was probably due to the fact that the Braithwait mansion was in the suburbs, some distance from the road, and several hundred yards from the nearest house.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3, August, 1893 by Various
Forbes eyed the ordinary keys with more interest than the burglarious ones.
From The Voice in the Fog by MacGrath, Harold
"Wouldn't it seem rather burglarious to make a descent upon the old lady at this hour?"
From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene
He was not absent more than three minutes, and the men crept around the house as though they had been engaged in a burglarious enterprise, securing their sabres so that they did not rattle.
From A Lieutenant at Eighteen by Optic, Oliver
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
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