kleptomaniac
Example Sentences
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He is a cat burglar - a kleptomaniac kitty who apparently cannot be reformed.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2022
I’m pretty sure it’s from a neighbor many, many years ago when I was a slightly kleptomaniac child, but I was a child and may have that wrong.
From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2022
Her Dame Judi Dench is a kleptomaniac mischief-maker, clogging toilets in five-star hotels just because as a “national treasure,” she can get away with it.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2016
Bregovic deflects these complaints with a mixture of frankness – "everyone starts from existing melodies ... composing is kleptomaniac work" – and dismissal – "this is just gossip".
From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2013
The door was locked, naturally, but it may as well not have been for all the challenge it presented to a kleptomaniac dwarf.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
