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How to use thievish in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word thievish? Here are some examples.

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Are you talking about the thievish doings of organized crime, all those gangs we keep hearing about?
Nor did we turn out noticeably more thievish, drug-addled, or unmotivated than nice suburban kids.
It seems that the huge accumulation of people's money had been distributed among thievish bankers and once again money has swum abroad.
In the dark, his thievish eyes glow with unshed 419 tears.
Think not rashly to lay your thievish hands upon my works.
In 1798, Stephen Burroughs, a thievish New England schoolmaster with a nasty weakness for seducing his young charges, found himself in prison in Worcester, Mass.
Examples from Classical Literature
O that treacherous, that thievish sleep, which had robbed him of his golden chance!
At best, these were doubtful levities, rather too thievish for a schoolboy, rather too gamesome for a thief.
There are a great many kinds, but all are mischievous, troublesome, and thievish.
They were like monkeys for their knavish and thievish tricks.
But foxes were left, and they were extremely inquisitive and thievish.
But the thievish mahout is responsible for the worst of his belly-pinch.
There is a thievish nature more hateful than even the biblioklept.
Or again, why blame a lying, thievish Isosceles when you ought rather to deplore the incurable inequality of his sides?
The thievish drones, which are prone to riot, let them riot!
This thievish leg is to hang at Milton, and the other is already at Brockenhurst, as a sign to all men of what comes of being over-fond of venison pasty.
Hunt would gladly have left this thievish neighborhood, but was detained until the 5th of February by violent head winds, accompanied by snow and rain.
And intertwining with one another, they quickly grew and covered all the wild-roving cattle by the will of thievish Hermes, so that Apollo was astonished as he gazed.
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