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US
/ˈθivɪŋ/
]
[ UK /θˈiːvɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /θˈiːvɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- given to thievery
NOUN
-
the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
the thieving is awful at Kennedy International
How To Use thieving In A Sentence
- If theyre taking money from ACORN, then why is Blackwater, and other thieving, lying companies funded by my tax dollars still receiving monies from the government. ACORN files lawsuit over loss of federal funding
- I'd suggest this was when he started thieving from temples.
- If there are scumbags thieving from the public coffers and we expose them and punish them, then the rule of law is upheld and we are all better off. Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Scandal in Black & White
- It blasts away for openers - not for the first time - with the overture from Rossini's otherwise neglected opera The Thieving Magpie.
- During that time he was savagely beaten, he built and renovated a small house for himself, panhandled, spent days on end drunk, took drugs, rode along on thieving runs and stood in soup kitchen lines.
- A shoplifter went prepared for thieving with a specially adapted carrier bag designed to stop alarms going off.
- Some previous stuff I have done on thieving pikey bastards: assorted pikey pictures and my bit on how you can not call pikey thieving gippo scum itinerant travellers. Archive 2008-03-01
- If someone prospers by thieving or cheating, his prosperity is likely to turn to ashes.
- That's when I got into crime - thieving from cars and doing burglaries.
- We aren't like the local autocrats, hypocritical and thieving to their rotten cores.