Thieving

Definitions: Thieving

Thieving

Adjective

1. Given to thievery.

Noun

1. The act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International".

Date "thieving" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Thieving

Synonyms: thieving(a) (adj), thievish (adj), larceny (n), stealing (n), theft (n), thievery (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Thieving

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Stealing	Adjective: thieving; Verb: thievish, light-fingered; furacious, furtive; piratical; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; raptorial; (rapacious).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Thieving

English words defined with "thieving": larceny ♦ Pilfering, Pugging ♦ stealing ♦ theft, thievery. (references)

Specialty definitions using "thieving": Alderman ♦ Wolf. (references)

Etymologies containing "thieving": thieve. (references)

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Modern Usage: Thieving

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Your entire havoc-inducing, thieving, whoring generation disgusts me. (Scream; writing credit: Kevin Williamson) I resolve never to do a dishonest act, or take part in any thieving, robbing, or false undertaking. (Bad Company; writing credit: Robert Benton; David Newman)
Movie/TV Titles	The Thieving Hand (1908)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Thieving

Domain	Title
Books	Legal thieving : less money? no job? why it's not your fault (reference) The Thieving Dwarfs (reference) The Thieving Magpie [LARGE PRINT] (reference) The Thieving Magpie: And Other Tales (reference) Thieving Magpie (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Thieving

Author	Quotation
Frantois Rabelais	He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbing.
Martin Luther	The murdering and thieving rabble of the peasants.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Thieving

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Thieving

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	ALDERMAN, n. An ingenious criminal who covers his secret thieving with a pretence of open marauding.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Thieving

"Thieving" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 46.81% of the time. "Thieving" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	46.81%	22	74,468
Adjective (general or positive)	21.28%	10	111,207
Noun (proper)	17.02%	8	124,375
Noun (singular)	14.89%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	47	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Thieving

Expression using "thieving": petty thieving. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "thieving": cattle-thieving, horse-thieving.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thieving

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
the thieving magpie	8
thieving	3
bastard filthy thieving	2
runescape thieving	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Thieving

Language		Translations for "thieving"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		fauche (theft, thievery). (various references)

German		stehlen (abstract, burgle, heist, pilfer, rustle, scrump, steal, stolen (from), thieve, to cabbage, to steal), diebstahl (abstraction, burglary, larceny, pilfering, plunder, theft, thievery), diebisch (impish, larcenous, mischievous, thievish, unholy), dieberei (pilferage, thievery). (various references)

Greek		σούφρωμα (crinkling, curl, shirr). (various references)

Hebrew		לקחנות (petty thieving, pilferage). (various references)

Italian		ladro (burglar, hooker, picaroon, prig, robber, thief), furto (abstraction, larceny, pinch, robbery, search, snatch, stealing, theft). (various references)

Manx		myngyragh (light-fingered, thievish), geid (kidnap, larceny, pinch, pocket, purloin, rustle, steal, thieve, thievery), gaddeeys (larceny, poaching, pocket picking), gaddeeaght (larceny, theft), braddagh (dishonest). (various references)

Pig Latin		ievingthay

Romanian		furat (stealing, stolen, theft). (various references)

Scottish		mèirle, bradach (thievish). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lopovski (priggish, roguish, thievish, thievishly), lopovluk (theft, thievery). (various references)

Spanish		ratería (larceny, petty thieving, pilfering, pinching). (various references)

Swedish		tjuvnad (abstraction, theft), tjuvaktig (light fingered, thievish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Thieving

Misspellings
	"Thieving" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: theiving. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Thieving"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "thieving" (pronounced thē"ving)
4	-ē" v i ng	achieving, believing, conceiving, deceiving, disbelieving, grieving, heaving, interleaving, interweaving, leaving, perceiving, receiving, relieving, retrieving, unbelieving, weaving.
3	-v i ng	absolving, approving, arriving, behaving, braving, calving, caregiving, carving, caving, conniving, conserving, craving, curving, delving, depriving, deriving, deserving, disapproving, dissolving, diving, driving, earthmoving, engraving, evolving, forgiving, giving, halving, having, improving, involving, jiving, lifesaving, living, loving, misbehaving, misgiving, moving, observing, paving, preserving, proving, raving, reliving, removing, reserving, resolving, reviving, revolving, revving, saving, serving, shaving, shelving, shoving, sieving, skydiving, solving, starving, staving, striving, surviving, thanksgiving, thriving, undeserving, unforgiving, unnerving, unswerving, waiving, waving.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Thieving

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-i-n-t-v"
	-1 letter: eviting, inveigh, nightie.
	-2 letters: hieing, hiving, ignite, invite, tieing.
	-3 letters: eight, genii, given, hinge, neigh, night, thegn, thein, thine, thing, tinge.
	-4 letters: gent, gien, give, hent, hint, hive, inti, nevi, nigh, nite, then, thin, tine, ting, vein, vent, vine.
	-5 letters: eng, eth, gen, get, ghi, gie, gin, git, hen, het, hie, hin, hit, net, nit.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-i-n-t-v"
	+4 letters: outachieving, overlighting, overnighting, overthinking.
	+5 letters: hypervigilant, overweighting.
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