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present participle and gerund of thieve examples
not comparable
That thieves; that steals; inclined to steal quotations examples
From her point of view, sex itself, or sexual awareness, is the thief that stole away her innocence (which completes the picture of Thomas's totally thieving world).
1966, William T. Moynihan, The craft and art of Dylan Thomas
The landlady was "a desperately mean old specimen... who employed a very thieving set of servants,"
2001, Mary Elizabeth Massey, George C. Rable, Refugee life in the Confederacy
usually uncountable, plural thievings
The action of theft. quotations examples
"There's nothing to spend your thievings on up here."
1910, Amy McLaren, Bawbee Jock