thievishly

• “No. Instead of promoting widespread benefits, they are, for the most part, striving to become billionaires (called "kleptocrats" in a related Wikipedia citation below as they are thievishly parasitic on the body politic).”

  On Rejecting "The System"

• “You, Who have granted us artists but a single faculty — that of aping You, of playing the Creator-and Who then freakishly and thievishly rob us of the power to do it ....”

  Succedaneum

• “With this cat? quoth Panurge; the devil scratch me if I did not think it had been a young soft-chinned devil, which, with this same stocking instead of mitten, I had snatched up in the great hutch of hell as thievishly as any sizar of Montague college could have done.”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “A person who thievishly appropriates small sums, but whose pilferings have no moral reference to each other, will find himself a mortal offender the moment his accumulated injustices reach the amount we have qualified as notable, provided he be at that moment aware of the fact, or even if he only have a doubt about the matter.”

  Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

• “For few hounds, so closed, waste and destroy more grapes than many foxes should destroy that come and eat thereof thievishly.”

  Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus

• “They are thievishly inclined as we have experienced.”

  The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

• “Dutch gave them beads, knives, and other trifles; but they found them thievishly disposed, much like the natives of the Ladrones, and were so fond of iron, that they stole the nails from the cabin windows, and the bolts from the doors.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.

• “Prior to the days of Bluetooth, men and women thievishly exchanged contact information on a piece of paper or just whispered their phone number to each other.”

  Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog

• “-- is it, perhaps, because you attacked me on the open plain, in order to rob me of my invisible bird's nest? or is it because you thievishly endeavored to seduce away the shadow with which I had entrusted you -- my own property -- confiding implicitly in your honor?”

  Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2

• “It showed luxury running riot amongst a nobility already impoverished and ever more thievishly inclined, a colossal capitalism clutching at the land and stretching out its tentacles for every source of profitable trade, the middle class fleeing from the country districts and ousted from their living in the towns, and the fair island that was almost a part of their Italian home, its garden and its granary, in the throes of a great slave war.”

  A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate

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