- present participle of thieve.
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
Judges found the accused guilty of harassing Magali Berdah, spurred on by a campaign by the French rapper Booba against "thieving influencers".
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024
I was glad that Yvonne kept bringing me more Lego trash bags or my production would’a really been slowed down by Rose’s thieving.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
