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On many a petty larcenist as well as on many a bold manipulator has been fixed the title: "Wolf of Wall Street."

From Time Magazine Archive

"He is a man named Stay, a petty larcenist, and in my opinion a much more dangerous character than the police have realised."

From The Daffodil Mystery by Wallace, Edgar

They could not be stretched to cover the intervening periods, so Little Calamity did his best to be a petty larcenist with indifferent success.

From Old Man Curry Race Track Stories by Van Loan, Charles E. (Charles Emmett)

Sum total—1st page of account— Josephs a larcenist and a corpse.

From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles

And it pleased the sardonic element in Hunt's unmoral nature that this Maggie, through whom he was trying to symbolize so much, he knew to be a petty larcenist: shoplifting and matters of similar consequence.

From Children of the Whirlwind by Scott, Leroy