thieving
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- adjective
- /ˈθivɪŋ/
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propenso a robar
- With thieving intentions, she sneaked around the store, eyeing the expensive jewelry.
Hermes represents being a messenger, but also being kind of a roguish thieving guy, you know.
- Hermes represents being a messenger, but also being kind of a roguish thieving guy, you know.
- I said listen, bro, I said this chick is a thieving adulterous who's cleaned bankruptcy multiple times.
- You know my thieving friends, my burglar buddies, my corruption compadres, my money laundering muchachos.
Examples
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There won't be a here Unless we get this will to Pete before that nasty, cheating, Thieving, evil, greedy, Vicious, ugly bean destroys our house.
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They are parasites, and the money they confiscate from hard-working Americans is mostly wasted and used to support the re-election campaigns of our mostly dishonest, corrupt, crooked, thieving politicians.
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A lot of people channelled that through football, villainy, thieving, fighting.
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Hermes represents being a messenger, but also being kind of a roguish thieving guy, you know.
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Many of us contend that it is, by nature, a parasitic, thieving, deceiving institution.
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I personally have had enough of the lies, deception, and political maneuvering from these lying, thieving, traitorous, good-for-nothing politicians.
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The police arrested a group of thieving teenagers who had been stealing bicycles in the neighborhood.
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His thieving nature made it impossible for him to hold down a job for long.
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Etymology
Thieving comes from the verb thieve and the related noun thief, which go back to an old German word meaning 'to steal'. So a thieving person is someone who often steals.