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pilfering
adjective as in larcenous
adjective as in thieving
adjective as in thieving/thievish
adjective as in thievish
noun as in appropriation
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noun as in embezzlement
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noun as in larceny
noun as in pilferage
noun as in theft
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Sitting just a few feet away it appears MacCallum's sometimes daily pilfering took place right in front of them.
Ohtani seems to steal second or third base any time he pleases, so pilfering five more is entirely plausible.
Later, as the team fell into arrears on pool rent payments, we learned that Stovall was accused of pilfering funds.
The meandering report likens the alleged theft of Sheriff’s Department personnel records to pilfering from a McDonald’s charitable donation box or stealing the recipe for Coca-Cola.
It’s hardly the most egregious of Trump’s myriad offenses: pilfering highly classified documents from the White House; trying to strong-arm Georgia’s secretary of state into stealing enough votes to overturn Trump’s defeat; siccing a deadly mob on the Capitol to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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