Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who pilfers or practises petty theft.
- noun Synonyms Thief, etc. See
robber .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who pilfers; a petty thief.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who has
pilfered .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a thief who steals without using violence
Etymologies
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Examples
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Said another source, "After Right Round, we all thought he was just your basic one-dimensional pilferer of existing derivative material" -- a reference to Flo Rida's more traditional appropriation of the 1985 classic, You Spin Me Round Like a Record by Dead or Alive.
John Baxter: Flo Rida Has Spellbound Critics Wondering Where He Gets It
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To continue to argue for tax cuts after 2003 was, of course, the mark of a pilferer with the morals of a Russian oligarch.
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Richard Prince has long reveled in his pose as a postmodern pilferer of other people's images—in being what's known as an "appropriation artist."
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Said another source, "After Right Round, we all thought he was just your basic one-dimensional pilferer of existing derivative material" -- a reference to Flo Rida's more traditional appropriation of the 1985 classic, You Spin Me Round Like a Record by Dead or Alive.
John Baxter: Flo Rida Has Spellbound Critics Wondering Where He Gets It
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“You, icy sweetness of strawberry, chocolate or vanilla, melting, stickily into your inverted dunce cap, ravisher of appetites, leading the younger generation from the straight and narrow paths of spinach, pilferer of the pennies that might go to make a fortune; destroyer of the peace of homes, instrument of bribery and reward of virtue.”
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I steal from dreams a pilferer who clings to vines of memory climbs again where blossoms sing – they seed a scent with redolent imaginings on which I feed
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The fact that an apparently reasonable and benign woman can find merit and solidarity with this organ pilferer is disturbing.
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I steal from dreams a pilferer who clings to vines of memory climbs again where blossoms sing – they seed a scent with redolent imaginings on which I feed
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In 2003, there was another twist in the saga: A woman from Philadelphia named Joan Langbord discovered 10 Double Eagles in a safe deposit box belonging to her late father, Israel "Izzy" Switt, a jeweler long linked to rumored coin-pilferer McCann's stash.
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In 2003, there was another twist in the saga: A woman from Philadelphia named Joan Langbord discovered 10 Double Eagles in a safe deposit box belonging to her late father, Israel "Izzy" Switt, a jeweler long linked to rumored coin-pilferer McCann's stash.
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