thieving
verbadjectivenounattested in dialogue
- //ˈθiːvɪŋ//
That thieves; that steals; inclined to steal
verb
- 1
Also a form of thievepresent participle and gerund of thieve
adjective
- 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
The action of theft.
"There's nothing to spend your thievings on up here."
Forms
- plural
- thievings
Thi · A surname from Vietnamese.thick · Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite…thief · One who carries out a theft.
thieving · That thieves; that steals; inclined to steal
thigh · The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.thin · Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its…thine · Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner…