thieving
noun1
Usually The action of theft.
- "There's nothing to spend your thievings on up here."1910, Amy McLaren, Bawbee Jock:
thieving
adj/ˈθiːvɪŋ/
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).1966, William T. Moynihan, The craft and art of Dylan Thomas:
- The landlady was "a desperately mean old specimen... who employed a very thieving set of servants,"2001, Mary Elizabeth Massey, George C. Rable, Refugee life in the Confederacy:
- Derived terms
- thievingly