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thievish
adjective
mainly literaryuk /ˈθiː.vɪʃ/ us /ˈθiː.vɪʃ/
relating to the act of stealing, or having the character of a thief, especially in being dishonest or tending to steal:
He described them as the laziest, most thievish rascals to be found in the country.
The opposition leader's strong words condemned the deceitful and thievish regime.
The building owner had long exhibited a pattern of thievish behaviour, and refused to return the tenants' security deposits.
We must return the wealth that was stolen from them in the thievish 1990s.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dishonest
artificiality
bad faith
be rotten to the coreidiom
bent
cowboy
dubiously
false
finagle
fishy
fly-by-night
malfeasance
mendacious
mendaciously
misleading
misleadingly
under false pretencesphrase
underhand
unreliability
unreliable
unscrupulous
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