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Meanings of thievish propensities in English

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Usage of thievish propensities in English
1
The Indians simply detest the wolverine on account of its thievish propensities and its great cunning.
Three Boys in the Wild North Land
2
The natives again quickly manifested their thievish propensities.
Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries
3
Do you flatter yourself that either the plough or the rifle will stop their thievish propensities?
The Settler and the Savage
4
One Saturday night, a negro whom we had suspected of thievish propensities, presented eight full-day tickets as the representative of his week's work.
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. /...
5
At last he came to the islands he called, after the thievish propensities of their inhabitants, the Ladrones, making his first landing at Guam.
The Age of the Reformation
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