Definizione monolingua

thieving

thieving

1. Present participle of thieve.

thieving (usually uncountable; plural thievings)

1. The action of theft.
   • 1910, Amy McLaren, Bawbee Jock:

     ""Theres nothing to spend your thievings on up here.""

thieving (not comparable)

1. That thieves; that steals.
   • 1966, William T. Moynihan, The craft and art of Dylan Thomas:

     From her point of view, sex itself, or sexual awareness, is the thief that stole away her innocence (which completes the picture of Thomass totally thieving world).

   • 2001, Mary Elizabeth Massey, George C. Rable, Refugee life in the Confederacy:

     The landlady was ""a desperately mean old specimen... who employed a very thieving set of servants,""

Definizione dizionario thieving

furto

Altri significati:

Present participle of thieve.

The action of theft.

action of theft

that steals

That thieves; that steals.