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thief
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
Synonyms Used in print (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)But while the two men are riding into the country , where they are going to dinner , they are attacked in the dark of the forest by a band of thieves , who strip them of everything , including most of their clothes . (Glayds H. Barr, The Master of Geneva....)Before them stalked the beadle , proclaiming as he went , `` Thus the Council deals with those who break its laws - adulterers , thieves , murderers , and lewd persons . Dice rolled , prostitutes plied their trade , thieves stole , murderers stabbed , and the ungodly blasphemed . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)The collective by which I address you in the title above is neither patronizing nor jocose but an exact industrial term in_use among professional thieves . |
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