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Noun thieving has 1 sense

• thieving(n = noun.act) larceny, stealing, theft, thievery - the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"
has particulars: breach of trust with fraudulent intent, defalcation, embezzlement, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation, pilferage, shoplifting, shrinkage, robbery, biopiracy, grand larceny, grand theft, petit larceny, petty, petty larceny, skimming, rustling
is a kind of felony
Derived form verb thieve₁

Adjective thieving has 1 sense

• thieving(s = adj.all) thievish - given to thievery; Array

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thieving

brigandish, burglarious, fraudulent, kleptomaniac, larcenous, larceny, light-fingered, pinch, piratelike, piratic, purloining, steal, stealage, stealing, sticky-fingered, thievery, thievish, touch

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thieving

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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