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View definitions for pilfering

pilfering

noun as in appropriation

noun as in embezzlement

noun as in larceny

noun as in pilferage

noun as in thievery

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Example Sentences

Sitting just a few feet away it appears MacCallum's sometimes daily pilfering took place right in front of them.

From BBC

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.

From Salon

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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