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According to Confucius there are seven grounds of divorce: disobedience, barrenness, lewd conduct, jealousy, leprosy or any other foul or incurable disease, too much talking, and thievishness.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis

During my residence at Long-Island, I raised one year with another, ten cart loads of water-melons, and lost a great many every year besides by the thievishness of the sailors.

From A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself by Smith, Venture

He feared that, do what he might, they would not escape the inquisitive thievishness of the parrots, whose strong beaks could easily cut leather; but he could do nothing more. 

From Erewhon Revisited by Butler, Samuel

The final drink-offering should have been made to Jove or Neptune, not to the god of thievishness and rascality of all kinds.

From The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Butler, Samuel

Although I have promised not to bring your thievishness to judgment, yet we can never deal with you again.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav