thiefy
adjEtymology From thief + -y.
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Informal Like a thief; thievish; thieving
- This makes for some pretty funny business, and so does a scene showing the fence stepping forth from a church, where he has presumably been casting a thiefy eye at the sacred vessels, and talking briskly to a henchman about the paint job he wants done on one of his hot commodities.1949, The New Yorker, volume 25, page 52:
- A sullen, thiefy edginess crept over Ardreagh.2000, Fred Johnston, Atalanta, page 162:
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- He picked up the last of the pieces and studied it. It depicted a shadowy figure, crouched and masked. Very thiefy, he noted with a smile. “What about this one? How does it move, and what does it do?”2017, Carrie Ryan, John Parke Davis, Shadows of the Lost Sun: