sticky-fingered
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The Nixtamal Queen is delicious, both as a pastry that leaves you satisfied and sticky-fingered, and as a challenge to the idea of Eurocentric authority in the bread and pastry world.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022
The Broncos are sticking by their usually sticky-fingered rookie.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2020
Mr. McDonnell takes cover from the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling vacating his conviction at trial, which found that his particular brand of sticky-fingered greed did not meet the law’s crabbed definition of official corruption.
From Washington Post • May 3, 2017
Ordinary Filipinos care more about their own poverty and about lower-level graft: sticky-fingered bureaucrats and policemen.
From Economist • Mar. 10, 2016
And the youngest was Cotton, dirty-faced and sticky-fingered.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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