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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or involving larceny.
  • adjective Guilty of or given to larceny.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Thievish; pertaining to, characterized by, or tainted with larceny.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having the character of larceny; ; committing larceny.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Given to larceny, tending to thievery.
  • adjective Resembling theft, often applied to legal actions that seem unfair.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun having a disposition to steal

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