Thieving: alternatives and connections

Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.

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Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.

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Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

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Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

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A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.

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The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement o…

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A wrong application.

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Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.

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The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for manag…

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Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.

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The act or practice of robbing; theft.

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of Rustle

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Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.

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The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.

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of Skim

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An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture.

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The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.

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of Steal

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The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same;…

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The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.

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Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.

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