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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
kleptomaniac
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She must be some kind of kleptomaniac -- she can't go into a bar without coming out with a stack of glasses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For about the hundredth time, I cursed whatever kleptomaniac curmudgeon had walked off the train with my bag.
▪ Okay, so I was looking for a politically active, fat, drunk kleptomaniac.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kleptomaniac

Kleptomaniac \Klep`to*ma"ni*ac\, n. A person affected with kleptomania.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
kleptomaniac

1861; see kleptomania.

Wiktionary
kleptomaniac

alt. One who steals compulsively. n. One who steals compulsively.

WordNet
kleptomaniac

n. someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive

Usage examples of "kleptomaniac".

Yet this truly comic paper does not probably know that it is comic, any more than the kleptomaniac knows that he steals, or than John Milton knew he was a humorist when he wrote a hymn upon the circumcision, and spent his honeymoon in composing a treatise on divorce.

Cases have been recorded of clergymen who were kleptomaniacs and in one instance a dying victim stole the snuffbox of his confessor.

You used to call persons who stole, evidently without any rational motive, kleptomaniacs, and when the case was clear deemed it absurd to punish them as thieves.

It scares the amateurs and builds up a file of kleptomaniacs in their protective association.