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most thievish

ADJECTIVE

criminal

Synonyms

WEAK

crooked cunning dishonest fraudulent furtive kleptomaniacal larcenous light-fingered pilfering piratic plunderous predatory rapacious secretive sly spoliative stealthy sticky-fingered

Antonyms

WEAK

benevolent philanthropic

ADJECTIVE

given to thievery

Synonyms

WEAK

crooked cunning dishonest fraudulent furtive kleptomaniacal larcenous light-fingered pilfering piratic plunderous predatory rapacious secretive sly spoliative stealing stealthy sticky-fingered

Example Sentences

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All winter long we have quantities of saucy-looking little sparrows here, and they have the most thievish expression when they fly down for a crumb.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy

An honest old man Chremylus enters with Carion "his most faithful and most thievish servant".

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.

This dwarf proved to be Alpris, the most thievish little creature in the world.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas