larcenous

Example Sentences

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Coop’s larcenous ways awaken something in him that the straight-laced corporate life had repressed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Above and beyond is Bonnie Milligan, portraying Pattie’s larcenous sister Debra, a woman of no known address but who might be elected president if she could redirect that cyclonic energy away from antisocial impulses.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022

Or in the current instance, Harry Palmer, the larcenous soldier turned secret agent of the 1965 Cold War thriller “The Ipcress File,” which has been remade as a six-episode series that premieres Thursday on AMC+.

From New York Times • May 18, 2022

Mr. Wolf, the lupine leader of the larcenous critters at the center of the delightful animated comedy “The Bad Guys,” knows whereof he speaks.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2022

One thing saved him: the company—and larcenous advice—of the city’s homeless, many of them teenagers.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden