thieving

Example Sentences

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Alcutt recently encountered a woman who was part of a suspected thieving group processing stolen copper in an encampment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

By contrast, the 1974 James Caan/Alan Arkin buddy cop movie “Freebie and the Bean” became one of her favorite movies, thanks to its thieving female impersonator.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2024

The seeds were there—not to make the case that Bankman-Fried was innocent or a victim of circumstance, but that he was the type of thieving fraud worthy of some extra consideration.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2024

Sentencing, the district judge said: "Seemingly, even the birds are not beyond your thieving grasp. You may conceive of these as just eggs but they are protected. This was a deplorable thing to do."

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2024

It never occurred to me that he had dipped his thieving fingers in my wallet.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood