pilferer
Example Sentences
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He wrote a letter to the American Medical Association, proclaiming that “some unconscionable scientific pilferer is trying to steal my entire life.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
The police arrived quickly and the posh pilferer had already disappeared, another indication that he knew what he was after, Rouches said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 4, 2011
Acting as combined prosecutor, jury & judge, Judge T. Webber Wilson denounced the pilferer as "a Judas and Benedict Arnold to your country," found him guilty, sentenced him to pay a $200 fine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet Erving is the second leading pilferer in the A.B.A.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ill plays the pilferer the bigger thief; One's self one ought to know;--in brief, Example is a dangerous lure; Death strikes the gnat, where flies the wasp secure.
From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Wright, Elizur
