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thieving
| Main Entry: |
thieving
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | crooked, cunning, dishonest, fraudulent, furtive, kleptomaniacal, larcenous, light-fingered, pilfering, piratic, plunderous, predatory, rapacious, secretive, sly, spoliative, stealthy, sticky-fingered, thievish |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, philanthropic |
| Main Entry: | thieving/thievish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | crooked, cunning, dishonest, fraudulent, furtive, kleptomaniacal, larcenous, light-fingered, pilfering, piratic, plunderous, predatory, rapacious, secretive, sly, spoliative, stealthy, sticky-fingered |
| Antonyms: | benevolent, philanthropic |
| Main Entry: | burglary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing from residence, business |
| Synonyms: | break-in, breaking and entering, caper, crime, filching, heist, housebreaking, larceny, owl job, pilferage, prowl, robbery, safecracking, second-story work, sting, theft, thieving |
| Notes: | burglary can take place when the victim is not there and is the theft of property without the owner being aware of the crime; in robbery, the victim is present and is confronted |
| Main Entry: | embezzlement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing money, often from employer |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, appropriation, defalcation, filching, fraud, larceny, misapplication, misappropriation, misuse, peculation, pilferage, pilfering, purloining, skimming, theft, thieving |
| Antonyms: | compensation, pay, reimbursement, return |
| Main Entry: | larceny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theft |
| Synonyms: | burglary, crime, lift, misappropriation, pilfering, pinch, purloining, robbery, steal, stealing, thievery, thieving, touch* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | predatory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eating, destroying for sustenance or without conscience |
| Synonyms: | bloodthirsty, carnivorous, depredatory, despoiling, greedy, hungry, hunting, marauding, pillaging, plundering, predacious, predative, preying, rapacious, raptorial, ravaging, ravening, thieving, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | rip-off |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick; robbery |
| Synonyms: | cheat, con*, exploitation, fraud, gyp, larceny, lift*, pinch*, purloining, racket, steal, stealing, swindle, theft, thievery, thieving |
| Antonyms: | gift, giving, offering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | theft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing |
| Synonyms: | annexation, appropriation, break-in, burglary, caper, cheating, crime, defrauding, deprivation, embezzlement, extortion, filch, fleece, fraud, grab*, heist, holdup, hustle*, job*, larceny, lift*, looting, mugging, peculation, pilferage, pilfering, pillage, pinch*, piracy, plunder, purloining, racket, rapacity, rip-off, robbery, robbing, score*, shoplifting, snatch*, snitch, steal, stickup, swindle, swindling, swiping, thievery, thieving, touch*, vandalism |
| Antonyms: | return |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plunder |
| Synonyms: | marauding, stealing, theft, thievery, thieving |
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