filch

The web of their lives “is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together,” to filch from Shakespeare, and Venable combines virtues and vices in unexpected patterns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

He would filch it if I wasn’t around.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2020

Though China has often used computer hacking to filch secrets, this case relied on traditional espionage techniques, including the attempted recruitment of corporate insiders.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2018

Senior advisers filch documents from his desk to prevent him from issuing rash orders and try to ignore or at least slow-walk those that are issued.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2018

He’d head up to Connecticut and filch Fred in the middle of the night.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

"But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed."

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2018

In his ruling, he quoted “Othello”: “He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

I sidle over to spoon my husband’s cream of Jerusalem artichoke soup with lemon verbena and shellfish; he filches confit.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2015

By contrast, Fairey simply filches artworks and hopes that no one notices — the joke is on you.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2012

“Silence, sir,—‘But he who filches from me my good name, robs me of that—of that—’” “Rob you of what, sar?”

From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick

With “Avalon,” it’s as though Zink glanced at the mundane little formula that recurs throughout her press clippings and filched it for a plot.

From New York Times ● May 17, 2022

To permit the filched territory and motor to keep continuous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

To balance the state’s budget, the Legislature has filched all it can from cities and towns over the years.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 19, 2019

When not kitted out in her Captain Marvel suit—much less revealing than Gadot’s Wonder Woman getup—she spends much of the film in a baggy Nine Inch Nails T-shirt filched from a store mannequin.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2019

Once when I filched a cookie from the jar, Mom called me the Blushing Bandit, on account of my red face.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

Sandwich spirals — also known as pinwheels — remind us of our parents filching some leftovers from "grown up" game day or office parties for us to enjoy when we got home.

From Fox News ● Dec. 13, 2021

A confrontation also would be embarrassing – like having to tell a coworker that you suspected them of doing something unsavory, like filching your pens.

From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2020

Not only feeding fantasies about improbably slinky eastern operatives filching secrets, it also propagates the idea of icy Russian disdain for the individual.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2018

The Tribune reported that Taylor was filching every form of public assistance imaginable: Social Security, food stamps, Medicaid, and Aid to Families With Dependent Children.

From Slate ● Dec. 31, 2017

I can’t tell you how hurt and sorry I felt to-night when I believed you to be mixed up with that contemptible bit of filching.

From Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden by Fenn, George Manville