sticky-fingered
Example Sentences
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Macneal is a sticky-fingered artist, lifting figures she needs from history and art.
From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2019
Ordinary Filipinos care more about their own poverty and about lower-level graft: sticky-fingered bureaucrats and policemen.
From Economist • Mar. 10, 2016
He is inheriting an empty treasury - broken by falling oil prices, the cost of supporting the national currency, and now threatened with more looting by sticky-fingered officials heading for the door.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2015
The Cardinals have been intercepted six times in the past three games, and with quarterback Kevin Kolb questionable because of a concussion, the Seahawks' sticky-fingered secondary will be ready.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2012
And the youngest was Cotton, dirty-faced and sticky-fingered.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
