light-fingered
adjective
skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
light-fingeredness
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a word derived from
light-fingered.
Example Sentences
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Captain Palliser wondered if he was perhaps sharp—one of those New Yorkers shrewd even to light-fingeredness in clever scheming.
From T. Tembarom by Frances Hodgson Burnett
