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thieving

noun

  1. act or process of stealing or being a thief
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adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈθiːvɪŋ/

adj

  1. That thieves; that steals; inclined to steal

    From her point of view, sex itself, or sexual awareness, is the thief that stole away her innocence (which completes the picture of Thomas's totally thieving world).

    The landlady was "a desperately mean old specimen... who employed a very thieving set of servants,"

noun

  1. The action of theft.

    "There's nothing to spend your thievings on up here."

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of thieve