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Larcenous   /lˈɑrsənəs/   Listen
Larcenous

noun
1.
Having a disposition to steal.  Synonym: thievishness.






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"Larcenous" Quotes from Famous Books



... became a pretty shade of plum. "Weener, youre a thief, a petty, cadging, sly, larcenous, pilfering, bloody thief. You take the Daily Intelligencer's honest dollars without a qualm, aye, with a smirk on your imbecile face, proposing with the cool impudence of the born embezzler to return no value for them. Weener, ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore

... bad humour, is the gist of the rhymes on Poet-Ape. Ben thinks Shakespeare's "works" very larcenous, but still, the "works," as such, are those of the poet-actor. I hope it is now clear that Poet-Ape, who, like Pantalabus, "takes up all"; who has "grown to a little wealth and credit in the scene," and who "thinks himself the chief" of contemporary ...
— Shakespeare, Bacon and the Great Unknown • Andrew Lang

... old Vesuvius, like a wicked, fallen angel, wearing his plumy, fumy halo of sulphurous hell-smoke; in the middle distance the Bay of Naples, each larcenous wave-crest in it triple-plated with silvern glory pilfered from a splendid moon; on the left the riding lights of a visiting squadron of American warships; on the right the myriad slanted sails of the coral-fishers' boats, ...
— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb



Words linked to "Larcenous" :   dishonesty



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