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thieving

verbadjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈθiːvɪŋ//

That thieves; that steals; inclined to steal

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of thievepresent participle and gerund of thieve

adjective

  1. 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).

    The landlady was "a desperately mean old specimen... who employed a very thieving set of servants,"

noun

  1. 1

    The action of theft.

    "There's nothing to spend your thievings on up here."

Forms

plural
thievings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).