light-fingered

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Adjective
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light-fin=gered

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective light-fingered has 1 sense

  • light-fingered(s = adj.all) nimble-fingered - having nimble fingers literally or figuratively; especially for stealing or picking pockets; "a light-fingered burglar who can crack the combination of a bank vault"; "the light-fingered thoughtfulness...of the most civilized playwright of the era"

CIDE DICTIONARY

light-fingereda. 
     Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts.  Fuller.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

light-fingered

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.


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