cutpurse

Example Sentences

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Sweet potatoes, fruit Jello, and roast pork — not turkey — would be served to all the inmates, from the lowliest cutpurse to what amounted to the celebrity wing, and its residents:

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2023

Now, Eugene wishes to gain a final rest from the cycle, to be released from the emotional burden he has carried since his days as a cutpurse in Moorish Spain.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2023

And the most ridiculous handball of all time, Raúl's cheeky chip and Andriy Shevchenko the cutpurse all star in this week's YouTube round-up.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2010

And the spirit of cutpurse abandon has been superseded by an atmosphere which is often sullen, often merely dirtily proletarian, often obscure.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You'll have every cutpurse within a league down upon us!"

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood