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

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

Ordinary Filipinos care more about their own poverty and about lower-level graft: sticky-fingered bureaucrats and policemen.

From Economist • Mar. 10, 2016

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

I have no visitors here, no sticky-fingered children or weary parents.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate