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Meanings of
thieving
in English
Portuguese
furto
Catalan
furt
Spanish
hurto
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The act of taking something from someone unlawfully.
stealing
theft
larceny
thievery
Portuguese
furto
Given to thievery.
thievish
Related terms
dishonest
dishonorable
Synonyms
Examples for "
stealing
"
stealing
theft
larceny
thievery
Examples for "
stealing
"
1
Second case was four men who were arrested for
stealing
a car.
2
He remains in custody, accused of
stealing
assets in a different case.
3
He was sentenced to 12 years on charges of
stealing
state secrets.
4
But no rule covers it.
Whip
-
stealing
is not in racing's rule book?
5
Bellerive said the case was
stealing
attention from the plight of Haitians.
1
The good news: Car
theft
dropped 22 percent last year, CCC reported.
2
The law requires hacked organizations to promptly warn potential identity
theft
victims.
3
Unfortunately, credit card fraud and identity
theft
are becoming increasingly big problems.
4
The idea comes from the goddess; the
theft
is all my own.
5
The Seven-Ten list
theft
was engineered to lead us to this truth.
1
Garaventa pleaded guilty in July to grand
larceny
and falsifying business records.
2
After all, that is nothing; petty
larceny
,
six months at the most.
3
In other words, the theft of five thousand dollars is grand
larceny
.
4
In July, Margulies was found guilty of grand
larceny
and other charges.
5
This sharecropping in the South is grand
larceny
on a grand scale.
1
This cannot be achieved while you remain imprisoned on charges of
thievery
.
2
Later, over cigarettes and coffee, Perry returned to the subject of
thievery
.
3
There'd been a great to do when the staff discovered the
thievery
.
4
Everywhere people spoke of rampant
thievery
,
highway robbery; endless fires burned everywhere.
5
And there was more than a little
thievery
and brawling and rioting.
Usage of
thieving
in English
1
In her body, she knew fear; morally, the
thieving
felt like reparation.
2
BEE has crippled South Africa more than the
thieving
politicians ever could.
3
There was one final check to stop anyone
thieving
the Empire's loot.
4
For ten years I worked for a succession of brilliant,
thieving
scumbags.
5
Even before Creeley became aware of his
thieving
,
Driver made him uncomfortable.
6
And now one hacker is releasing the
brain
-
thieving
software to prove it.
7
These poor creatures seldom obtain any great sum by
thieving
and cheating.
8
The best man in the State with a little beggarly
thieving
nonentity?
9
It's a
thieving
,
drunken lot of fellows Saul will fall in with.
10
An ugly
thieving
thing, as has no business above stairs at all.
11
And like most of that crowd in the field, a
thieving
misfit.
12
He saw the Dark Lord cut down at his own
thieving
hand.
13
There's no telling when those
thieving
Alaskans will be close after us.
14
We're a
thieving
,
dishonest lot, sir, little as I thought it, sir.
15
He is impoverished and in trouble; he's also
thieving
,
selfish and callous.
16
Are
thieving
,
and lying, and looting, and bestial talk very bad things?
Other examples for "thieving"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
thieving
thieve
Verb
Present
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
petty thieving
little thieving
Translations for
thieving
Portuguese
furto
roubo
Catalan
furt
estafa
robament
atracament
robatori
lladrocini
Spanish
hurto
substracción
sustracción
latrocinio
desvalijamiento
robo
Thieving
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Thieving
across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common