sticky-fingered
Example Sentences
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The Nixtamal Queen is delicious, both as a pastry that leaves you satisfied and sticky-fingered, and as a challenge to the idea of Eurocentric authority in the bread and pastry world.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022
The Broncos are sticking by their usually sticky-fingered rookie.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2020
Macneal is a sticky-fingered artist, lifting figures she needs from history and art.
From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2019
This is not the first time sticky-fingered thieves have pinched a beehive on Anglesey - in 2015, one farm suffered two thefts in the space of a month.
From BBC • Aug. 10, 2017
I have no visitors here, no sticky-fingered children or weary parents.
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
