ADJECTIVE
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having nimble fingers literally or figuratively; especially for stealing or picking pockets
the light-fingered thoughtfulness...of the most civilized playwright of the era
a light-fingered burglar who can crack the combination of a bank vault
How To Use light-fingered In A Sentence
- Our light-fingered fig climber commits acts of larceny while the crumb-laden colossus eats his weight in skunk soup and then falls into narcolepsy.
- Action peaks during the visit of a circus - complete with elephants, tigers, and light-fingered pickpockets.
- With light-fingered nimbleness he checked all the contents, drawers and secret hiding places in the dressing-case, finding everything intact.
- Handbags, mobile phones on tables, coats on backs of chairs are all easy pickings for light-fingered thieves.
- Angry Kid Shop Raider - Out smart, guards, dogs and CCTV to grab the swag by being light-fingered through 24 levels of frantic arcade action.
- the light-fingered thoughtfulness...of the most civilized playwright of the era
- Some retailers think that if they report light-fingered staff to police instead of simply firing them, they inflame the situation and increase the risk of later legal action.
- Over the last three weeks, light-fingered thieves have been helping themselves to power tools, lawn mowers, hedge trimmers, gardening tools and mountain bikes from sheds in Farnham, Godalming, Guildford, Clandon, Shackleford and Albury.
- Floyd is not only a thief, but a runagate - light-footed as well as light-fingered.
- But I do have designs on your... shall we say, light-fingered talents? ON A WICKED DAWN
