Crossword clues for thievery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thievery \Thiev"er*y\, n.
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The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.
Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest.
--South. That which is stolen. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, from thieve + -ery. An Old English word for it was þeofend.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of theft, the act of stealing. 2 (context obsolete English) That which is stolen.
WordNet
Wikipedia
'''Thievery '''may refer to:
- Theft
- Thievery Corporation - music band
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Usage examples of "thievery".
The shops as a rule were not raised from the ground nor were their doors bolted or barred, since thievery is practically unknown upon Barsoom.
Lugg opened his mouth to speak, but Byrt launched into a complicated tale of thievery and kidnapping on the high seas.
Petty thievery was a way of life for the Hindus, and that was tolerantly condoned by the Bho, who regarded anything not tied down as ownerless, but theft was condemned as criminal by the dirty but honest Tazhiks.
She was reluctant to ask the proud, aristocratic Yhelle illusionists to descend to thievery.
And the world would call him crazy again, as they had when he had outlawed alcohol, reinstituted cutting off hands for thievery, forced women to wear the barakan again-the long sheetlike garment that covered everything but one eye.
There was apparently something about the telephone company that inspired more than the normal public inclination to vandalism, thievery, and scatological attack.
More policemen roamed the Balut Market square, to keep down thievery, maintain orderand cadge what they could.
He had seen more than enough of Brookside, he decided, and enough of power thievery to grasp truly, for the first time, the size and hydra-beaded nature of the beast.
Retzak resumed his pattern of thievery and transitory labor, working as a ditchdigger, a cook, a janitor at a school, even a foot-courier for a small independent bank.
Raccoon prints were all over, and yet there was no tearing or thievery, and no more than the usual number of chickens were taken, though foxfeet had trodden on every henhouse roof.
And the world would call him crazy again, as they had when he had outlawed alcohol, reinstituted cutting off hands for thievery, forced women to wear the barakan again-the long sheetlike garment that covered everything but one eye.
More linebackers than thieves believe this, but when it comes to politics -- to a 28-year career of cheap shots, lies and thievery -- there is no man in America who should understand what is happening to him now better than Richard Milhous Nixon.
The methods of the Raiders were various, ranging all the way from sneak thievery to highway robbery.
Just don’t” yelled Isaac at everyone in the staring crowd, “be arsing around with ideas of muggery and thievery.
Just don’t” yelled Isaac at everyone in the staring crowd, “ be arsing around with ideas of muggery and thievery.