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  • noun Plural form of larcenist.

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Examples

  • Imagine what might be achieved if this movement can get really serious and starts taking its protest more directly to the avaricious bankers, corporate larcenists and crony capitalists who are the central source of their discontent with how we live now.

    The protesters seem more adult than politicians and plutocrats | Andrew Rawnsley 2011

  • At the end of the day, the science is sound and little has changed, which was undoubtedly the intention of the FoI spammers and email larcenists.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Sou 2010

  • Only larcenists have such an amoral indifference to the idea that they might be selling phony goods.

    Richard (RJ) Eskow: A Letter -- and a Challenge -- to an Anonymous Wall Street Whiner 2010

  • At the end of the day, the science is sound and little has changed, which was undoubtedly the intention of the FoI spammers and email larcenists.

    Running out of news? Sou 2010

  • The climax involved a burglar trying to break into the kid's house and his parents coming home in just the nick of time (because everyone knows larcenists are terrified of adults).

    Jessica Olien: Back to School Stealing 2008

  • I guess it is too much to expect such grand larcenists to be honest as they pick our pockets.

    Who Started This Fiscal Game of Chicken? 2006

  • I guess it is too much to expect such grand larcenists to be honest as they pick our pockets.

    In Defense of Corporate Taxes 2006

  • And here they sat, in a pathetic mimicry of a pub, enduring the presence of rabble and quarrelers, larcenists and pirates, those who inevitably were pushed out onto any frontier by the expansion of decency as they ran before it in a shabby attempt to profit before it arrived.

    The Search Diane Carey 2000

  • And here they sat, in a pathetic mimicry of a pub, enduring the presence of rabble and quarrelers, larcenists and pirates, those who inevitably were pushed out onto any frontier by the expansion of decency as they ran before it in a shabby attempt to profit before it arrived.

    The Search Diane Carey 2000

  • And here they sat, in a pathetic mimicry of a pub, enduring the presence of rabble and quarrelers, larcenists and pirates, those who inevitably were pushed out onto any frontier by the expansion of decency as they ran before it in a shabby attempt to profit before it arrived.

    The Search Diane Carey 2000

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