thief
noun
a person who steals, especially secretly or without open force; one guilty of theft or larceny.
Example Sentences
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When I heard in the opera Le Nozze di Teti e Peleo the great scene which that shameless Francesco Cavalli has thievishly taken from your works, I was enraptured.
From Weird Tales. Vol. I by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)
For few hounds, so closed, waste and destroy more grapes than many foxes should destroy that come and eat thereof thievishly.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert
He relates battles and skirmishes as from an eyewitness, when his eyes thievishly beguiled a ballad of them.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
The grave and reverend signor yonder will scarce assist, I trow, indeed, 'tis to be feared he may be thievishly inclined, and needs must I bestow the goods skilfully.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
