thievish
Example Sentences
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As his friends and rivals well knew, he was a thievish genius.
From The Guardian • May 7, 2010
In the dark, his thievish eyes glow with unshed 419 tears.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 28, 2009
On the other hand there are also some of the most false, lying, thievish rascals, the like of which I could not have believed lived on earth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Semyon Ivanovitch, however, looked more like a conceited, thievish old cock-sparrow.
From White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
"A thief," says he, "my friends, is a man of a thievish disposition."
From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous
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