thievery
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈθiːvəri/
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hurto
- Nae doubt it was, but hunger made the lad take to thievery.
- petty thievery
What would you do, Justice Scalia, if the state of South Dakota or Montana reinstituted facial branding for horse thievery?
- What would you do, Justice Scalia, if the state of South Dakota or Montana reinstituted facial branding for horse thievery?
- This motherfucker was doing some thievery shit.
- So particularly you get a lot of thievery and, and, and the whole thing is involved, the lying that we were great, we're liars.
- So particularly you get a lot of thievery and, and, and the whole thing is involved, the lying that way, we're great, we're liars.
- She ends up like now that she's a teenager, she ended up working in a kind of royal household or like a noble household and her big thievery.
Examples
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Petty thievery, not all that uncommon, and Marensky owned up to it pretty quickly.
Fiction book (1993) -
There are many repercussions of thievery more beyond just the risk of jail or prison.
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Your days of thievery end today.
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Despite your thievery, we are prepared to buy it from you, right now... ...in cash.
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Politics had created the mess and was a cover for thievery.
Academic text (2011) -
And Wall Street has been nothing but a system of thievery, directed from London, always directed from London.
Blog text (1) -
In late September, two incidents of meat thievery were reported to the sheriff's department.
Blog text (23) -
But this time, cooperation and goodwill were turned to suspicion, thievery, and outright violence.
Academic text (1996) -
Thievery is not tolerated at Hogwarts, Tom.
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The store installed cameras to help prevent thievery and protect their merchandise.
Synonyms
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1.1
An act of taking someone else's property without permission to keep it
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7.2
Stealing something that belongs to someone else to keep it
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3.7
The act of taking things from other people without permission
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1.0
Taking something that belongs to another person without permission
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6.0
The act of taking valuable things by force, often during war
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7.5
Stealing small items from a store or workplace, often done repeatedly
An act of stealing goods, often the cargo from a ship
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Thievery comes from the simpler word thief ('a person who steals') and the ending -ery ('an action or place'). Think of someone sneaking things into a bag — that's thievery, the action of stealing.