thief
IPA: θˈif
noun
- One who carries out a theft.
- One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.
- (obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
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Examples of "thief" in Sentences
- The ranger caught the thief.
- He wrenched the thief's arm.
- The guard is attacking the thief.
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
- The name of the thief is never revealed.
- The thief deprived the rights of the people.
- Additionally, the thief must intend to defraud.
- The thief trespassed the house of the President.
- Why becoming a data thief is all too easy - USATODAY. com
- During the fracas, a thief steals the cart with the barrels.
- Stealing a child is an irrevocable action on the part of the thief.
- The youths took up the chant ‘a thief is a cheat’, and Chief Nwakibie sluggishly danced along.
- A thief is a thief is a thief, we don't need another one in congress, its full of them already.
- Yet, if this paper was a connecting link between her stolen manuscript and the thief, _who was the thief_?
- Between thief and -- there was no word for what he and Warvia were now, but every hominid knew the word _thief_.
- Later, the viewer (but not Chuck) discovers that the thief is actually Sarah in disguise, who works as an agent for the CIA.
- You led in the song, we tagged behind you and sang the refrain, “a thief is a cheat”, as we humiliated them round the entire Ubaha.
- a distinct proposal now that the thief and the justice shall change places on the spot -- with the inquiry as to which is _the justice_, and which is the _thief_, openly started -- one would almost fancy that the subject had been exhausted here, or would be, if these indications should be followed up.
- When it was proved that _you_ stole my father's horse; that _you_ are responsible for the absence of Mr. Hadley; that _you_ pointed the knife and the pistol at his heart, and then mendaciously represented him as the thief and kidnapper who is found in your own person; then, sir, would you vail your face and go out no more among men, but upon your forehead, as _now_ upon your soul, would be the brand of _thief_, _robber_, _murderer_!
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