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

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

“I am forever grateful to them,” says Georgette Ioup of the immigrants who renovated her home in the Gentilly neighbourhood—though the police, and unscrupulous contractors who sometimes filch workers’ wages, have been less hospitable.

From Economist ● Aug. 20, 2015

The server who hadn’t acknowledged me had a round, shaved head and, like many food workers, had grown a bit pudgy from the practically unlimited opportunity he had to filch food.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

Gunn not only filches from the trove, he graciously acknowledges the theft.

From Time ● Aug. 1, 2014

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

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2012

"He rushes in where an angel has feared to tread, and filches from me my reward!"

From King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties by Housman, Laurence

To permit the filched territory and motor to keep continuous.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

But there was no evidence that the fragment with writings from Mark had been filched.

From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 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

I saw the faces of men who were not there and of children from whom the life had been filched, and yet it was black night, blacker than black since the stars were hidden.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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

It is great that your daughter wants to cook, but let her manage her own ingredients, rather than filching yours, and see how quickly she learns to slow down and take it carefully.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2018

Then, addressing the child, she said, "What do folks mean when they talk of filching?"

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Sue, Eugène