How To Use Thievery In A Sentence
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As one sergeant noted, ‘he was man repeatedly punished for acts of petty thievery and drunkenness.’
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Mikhail: Don't try to justify your thievery with excuses!
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If people like him are shunned and embarrassed over this kind of legalized thievery often enough, maybe we can put an end to it and redirect some of that money back to shareholders, to whom it properly belongs in the first place.
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Between food-thievery, vehicle hot-wiring and gas-siphoning, Cowen jokes that he has learned a new set of skills.
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As you well know, thievery is a crime punishable by a long time in prison.
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References to two Aussie 1980s hardish rock bands, flanelette and thievery - it could almost be Broadmeadows.
Midnight Oil: How Can We Sleep When Our Beds Are Burning?
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So astonished and delighted was Goodcastle at this find that he took only it, a diamond cravat pin, a modest broach, and fifty gold guineas, eschewing the many other _objets d'art, _ pieces of jewelry, and gold and silver coin cluttering Mayhew's boudoir (another rule of thievery: The more modest the take, the more likely that weeks or months will pass before the victim discovers his loss, if indeed he ever does).
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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Residents of the city of Zamora, twice witnessed a spectacle in which men who had obviously been flagellated and otherwise tortured were paraded around one of the main glorietas bearing signs that they were being made an example by the La Familia who accused them of thievery and other crimes.
Even the criminals won't file denuncias
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It's a question that bedevils news managers, as journalists continue to work in danger zones where hostile fire, kidnapping, thievery, and muggings are part of a day's work.
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But that's what is so refreshing about their approach - they have somehow cracked the secret formula of winning pop, and if that involves a little thievery from their idols, so be it.
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Looting, vandalism and thievery has forced many foreigners to flee the country.
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For generations they'd moved from county to county, mending things, racing their sulkies at fairs, and, some said, doing thievery or Worse.
Cradle and All
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As Victor stalks Rose, however, he's amused by her insouciant thievery in an open-air market and, even if he doesn't know it, beguiled by her beauty.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Wild Target
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Practicability: for prevention against thievery, inflation and repair for bicycle, motorcycle and storage battery car.
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The man caused more thievery than he cured, and all men knew it.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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The idea is to make an example of a few swindlers, in order to divert attention from the pervasive thievery that has come to characterize American ‘free enterprise.’
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Such self-deprecation is also expressed in changing views about thievery in Niamey, a subject that arouses particularly intense emotions even though its incidence is actually quite rare.
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Insofar as the pursuit of this homogeneous substance provides the binding "one law" of his existence, he resembles the Urizenic Bromion; but to the extent that his fetishistic hoarding of gold necessitates a renunciation of all self-expenditure and a paranoid withdrawal from society (which must be seen as a source of expense or potential thievery), he resembles the withdrawn and virtue-hoarding Theotormon (who, like the miser, is also associated with a "threshold" of stone [2: 6]).
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
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So astonished and delighted was Goodcastle at this find that he took only it, a diamond cravat pin, a modest broach and fifty gold guineas, eschewing the many other objets d-art, pieces of jewelry and gold and silver coin cluttering Mayhew's boudoir (another rule of thievery: the more modest the take, the more likely that weeks or months will pass before the victim discovers his loss, if indeed he ever does).
More Twisted Stories Vol II
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Then I was taught street fighting, thievery, burglary, and trickery.
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But like his brother in arms, Colonel Cash, of the Eighth, and brother turfman, he became disgusted with the thievery and trickery of later day sports and quit the turf, still owning at his death some of the most noted racers of the times, Granger Lynchburg, John Payne,
History of Kershaw's Brigade
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Antonomasia is, then, a kind of theft, but one that reveals the thievery involved in the original act of naming.
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Juvenile crime focused primarily on merchants or less organized forms of thievery in semipublic areas such as dumps, junkyards, and railroad yards.
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It provides companies with an option for shielding their intellectual property from information thievery.
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Dishonesty, thievery, and peculation pervade the public sector.
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And even in plays with twists and turns and convolutions of the storyline such as Bartholomew Fair where the names of the characters -- Littlewit, Winwife, Quarlous -- tell us what they are, their games of language and wordplay make the plot -- Puritans and rogues meet up at a county fair and fun and thievery ensue -- secondary to the fun and revelry.
Play on Words
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At times Cord's own'talents verged on mountebankery. and the best of mountebanks had no little skill at thievery and its adjunctive crafts.
Night Arrant
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That deadly combination has let loose a wave of vengeance killings, tribal vendettas, mercenary kidnappings and thievery.
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This kind of thievery, vandalism, individual violence and destruction expresses, not the stress of combat, but an intense hatred directed against an entire people or race.
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He tried to justify his thievery with excuses.
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The young man continued to hone his skills at thievery, and learned to use force when necessary as well.
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Much of the looting was selective thievery of a quite small number of valuable pieces, with smashing and burning of furniture and furnishings carried out to simulate looter-like behaviour.
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It continues to operate in the region today, even though cattle rustling and other forms of thievery rarely occur.
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Burglary and petty thievery, however, are common.
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It was assumed by the courts that Tarot readings were false, and therefore a kind of thievery.
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They resort to petty thievery to make a few extra bucks and, by chance, end up videotaping a mob hit that lands them in water over their heads.
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He turned to a life of petty thievery when his friend managed to steal a gold coin from a weary traveler.
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A poor circus performer, Heikishi Endo, is framed by K-20 and has to resort to daring thievery of his own to reclaim his good name and thwart the fiend, who is trying to get a big Tesla coil to use as a weapon.
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Although the leadership has central power in the village organizations, a dozen or more council members secretly work with the leaders to hear cases involving thievery and other deviant acts.
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I am thinking, however, that for all they cry against them, the poor rates are but a small evil, since they keep the poor folk in such food and raiment, and out of the temptations to thievery; indeed, such a thing as a common beggar is not to be seen in this land, excepting here and there a sorner or a ne'er-do-weel.
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
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She wondered where and why he'd learned all he knew of thievery.
PAINT THE WIND
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Mr. Buckley would have hung for several reasons, kidnapping and horse thievery among them.
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He often treads that fine line between homage and outright cinematic thievery, but he is a master technical craftsman and storyteller whose work is almost universally a joy to watch and immerse yourself into.
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So you see, the dirty little secret behind his ‘philanthropy’ is that it's the product of thievery.
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It did not conduce to my equanimity to see my name catalogued with persons arrested for sneak thievery, pocket-picking, drunkenness, brawling, and mayhem.
The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice
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The posters now need tamper-proof perspex frames fixed to walls with special screws to prevent the thievery.
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So they tried to drive the movie company away by thievery and sabotage at night.
THREE IN ONE
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I am, and always have been, a big fan of the Thievery's electronic sound, but their take on reggae and dub has always been a special favorite of mine - this cut, featuring Sista Pat on vocals, is probably their best distillation of reggae to date, with a really catchy melody and classic use of effects.
Monday's are Heavy Sometimes (Music (For Robots))