kleptomaniac
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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
The character of Betty Draper in Mad Men – overgroomed blonde hair, mental fragility, love of horseriding and tailored dresses – is surely a copy of Tippi Hedren's kleptomaniac in Marnie.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2012
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
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