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Sentence Examples The remark was not brought on by some thieving or chicanery on my part, but rather by a political speech I'd made that this person didn't like. If we want a prosperous, successful nation the government has to start now and stop tinkering and thieving by stealth. An 1823 letter by John C. Calhoun was offered on eBay and led to the discovery of a thieving archivist. I'll be sleeping with one eye open around every one of you sneaky puling horse thieving bastards. There's no economic theory to explain it, other than the theory that the inhabitants are grasping thieving swine. My Mother always talked about them and their nests as if a caravan of thieving gypsies had set up camp in the back yard. A 27-year-old heroin addict found himself in the grip of a police dog after going on a late-night thieving expedition. Verbal aggression, insulting and rude behaviour, disregard for the rights of others, petty thieving and shoddy work were the norms. They were ruthless and greedy, plundering king's troves of gold and any treasure they can get their thieving claws on. The thieving wine connoisseurs then ransacked the house, stealing laptops, wallets and jewellery. With her drinking and thieving, his mother proved a lifelong source of embarrassment. We aren't like the local autocrats, hypocritical and thieving to their rotten cores. Many take sport in killing for the sake of killing, thieving for the sake of theft, even if they do not need or use the spoils. We want crime rates to drop and steps to be taken to convince young criminals that there is an alternative to thieving and breaking the law. And Sammy, a shopkeeper, decides to combat thieving tearaways with retaliatory violence. And the government bureaucracy is riddled with corruption, thieving, lying and wastefulness. Forget all that, forget any sort of reasonable discussion, let's just call them thieving scroungers again. The colonel begged me to accompany him to the guard-room, to see the thieving soldier flogged. But I do fear in approving its publication you've probably made yourself Captain Nasty for generations of thieving welfarists. All in all, a different picture from Corwin's portrayal of the credible, kindly dad and the thieving, abusive mom. Show More Sentences The Boy remains behind and comments on the cowardice and petty thieving of his associates, whom he plans to leave. Proceeds from his thieving at shops in Lyneham and Wroughton had been used to buy his drugs, she said. In these conditions, thieving from the state and 'beating the system' were the things to do to survive. We are not talking about spontaneous outbreaks of opportunitistic thieving. The movie is brimming with witchcraft and wizardry, temptation and all manner of nasty people killing, maiming and thieving. In interviews across Baghdad, though, Iraqis said the widespread thieving affected them at least as powerfully on an emotional and moral level. Those caught thieving something worth more than the price of a goat are sentenced to lose a hand. It was David who told us you could go to jail for thieving from the age of 13 onwards. A lot of them go out, do car-urging, car-snatches, you know, or some of them go out thieving. I fully expected a ho-hum exclusive concerning a tugged pigtail or some apple thieving. I submit that what has been going on her isn't so much a disease as a moral failing, just as lying and thieving are moral failings. On entering, I switch it off, the better to concentrate on what a shiny, show-off, thieving bunch the old Venetians were. High tobymen, or horsed robbers, had yielded the field to low tobymen, or footpads, and roadside thieving had lost its traditional panache. The eccentric drunk's largesse solves the girl's problems, but when the scatterbrain forgets he gave her the money, she is arrested for thieving. Talking to many fishery owners over the years, it seems the biggest problem they face is fish thieving. A shoplifter went prepared for thieving with a specially adapted carrier bag designed to stop alarms going off. If someone prospers by thieving or cheating, his prosperity is likely to turn to ashes. Police are also hunting a boy aged about 12 who ran off after the thieving monkey. Some, especially in the provinces, unmasked bullying and thieving local officials who had been exploiting the people. Insults go with the territory, I have no problem with people calling me a thieving, parasite dog. Show More Sentences Those devious, thieving bastards were expecting Dan to pay 90,000 Rupees to be driven 500 kilometers. I would like to shame the spineless, thieving moron who on April 5 stole my little girl's books from the toilets in Morrisons. He added that car crimes were more often occurring at night and cars were often stolen Thursday through to Saturday while thieving from cars was more general. Otherwise, laugh along as Harold improvises an elephant trunk, chews on leaves, swelters in a hot desert sun, deals with mischievous thieving monkeys, and more. Of course, there weren't problems of drug trafficking and thieving like there are today! We are against thieving Rome for the same reasons that we say no' to the accession of Turkey to Europe. Being against thieving Rome' means being against centralism and being against those who oppress our freedom. Here I can say it freely and no one, thank God, will silence me: down with thieving Rome! Such incidents are not so surprising in a lucrative trade marred by thieving, swindling and espionage. Citizens believed that these swarthy people, with their thieving transactions and licentious sexuality, had no morals. Cattle-rustlers are, to misquote John Wayne, a thieving pack of scoundrels. But spacey makes Abramoff an enormously appealing, rage-filled, thieving, megalomaniacal sociopath. I didn't want any thieving, shifty-eyed shepherds near our inn. Putin is also, for obvious reasons, not a great fan of people-power democracy movements that overthrow corrupt, thieving elites. This series follows a group of gang members as they fight their mortal enemies and seek out a living on the streets by selling drugs and thieving. In the end I ignored them all and reasoned that it could be some kind of horrible prank and I would be shamed nationwide as a thieving pinchpenny. Other characters include a thieving chemist's shop worker and a ballet dancer forced to lap dance. In America, light-fingered employees are a bigger problem than thieving shoppers. He hid them from his own workmen during construction, and two have been pried out by thieving visitors. I can accept the thieving but to set fire to it is well out of order. Show More Sentences A novel dealing with, among many other interesting things, the aesthetics of thieving. But those years slipped into laddishness, embracing only one kind of Manchester, and we ended-up with a culture that glorified thugs, drugs, and thieving. Angela's public world and Ronnie's very private life collide with an assortment of thieving politicos, power-hungry businessmen, and ruthless clergy. When I ran out of money I ended up borrowing and then thieving. Spacey makes Abramoff an enormously appealing rage-filled, thieving, megalomaniacal sociopath. We could have amended SARA so she would have been less of a thieving kind but, as it turns out, we have a minister who, as I have been told by people who have worked for him, has more ego than common sense. A prime minister who was constantly heckled about thieving by school children resorted to trading insults with them, and this eventually degenerated into stone-throwing at his motorcade. All these Foreign Ministers, all these thieving, corrupt ministers? They were also viewed as noxious animals prone to thieving, and their saliva was said to be able to poison a grown man. The act of theft is also known by other terms such as stealing, thieving, and filching. Down with thieving Rome, down with thieving Rome! But in Russia I can still criticize whatever I dislike about the country: its wars and its thieving oligarchs, the parliament as well as the president, just like in every other democracy. And this thieving group of workers at the Joburg airport has made it their business to routinely tamper, open, passengers' luggage and steal from them. Examples from Classical Literature What he had had the audacity to propose to me had been treason, not thieving. The year following Flea's and flukey's fourteenth birthday the boy was taken into his foster-father's trade of thieving. It was judas iscariot was saying it first, and you're just thieving it from a thief. I greatly doubt me, sweet lady, that the thieving churl will return the crackers. So look well to thyself, I say, or ill may befall thee as well as all the thieving knaves in Nottinghamshire. These thieving propensities made her perfect as a ne'er-do-well. There was a run against me last night in that thieving place. Buckstone gives notice of the thieving knobs University job. I first become aware of myself, down in Essex, a thieving turnips for my living. Five hundred men are, in consequence, thrown out of employment, and, having no work to do, become hungry and take to thieving. While this was passing, a duck came quacking up and cried out, 'You thieving vagabonds, what business have you in my grounds? I out-heroded Herod, wouldn't touch a grape, and went in the most delicious danger of being knifed for my principles by the thieving crew I had joined. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of thieving? Words that rhyme with thieving What is the plural of thieving? What is the adverb for thieving? What is the adjective for thieving? What is the noun for thieving? Translations for thieving Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words thieves' thieves thievery thieved thieve thiers thievish thievishness thigh thighbone thigh-high thighs 8-letter Words Starting With t th thi thie thiev thievi thievin