• Thieving

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -iːvɪŋ

    Verb

    thieving
    1. Present participle of thieve

    Full definition of thieving

    Adjective

    thieving

    1. That thieves; that steals.
      • 1966, William T. Moynihan, The craft and art of Dylan Thomas, 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).
      • 2001, Mary Elizabeth Massey, George C. Rable, Refugee life in the Confederacy, The landlady was "a desperately mean old specimen... who employed a very thieving set of servants,"

    Noun

    thieving

    (usually uncountable; plural thievings)
    1. The action of theft.
      • 1910, Amy McLaren, Bawbee Jock, "There's nothing to spend your thievings on up here."
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