Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of pilfering; petty theft; also, the thing stolen.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Petty theft.
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- noun
petty theft
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Examples
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Porter's pilfery and his 74-yard return for the game-clinching touchdown provided the Saints with the momentum-swinging defensive play many experts predicted they would need to beat the Colts for their first championship.
Saints use timely field goals, decisions to rally from 10 down 2010
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Yeah, the pilfery isn't a quality all us single ladies look for in an eligible ex-con dentist, but she's giving me some major Rex de ja vu.
Desperate Blog 2009
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This paflitge of the aibrefaid pilfery is delineated, and wrought in the hangings about the choir, with the portraitures of the king, H v go I1. 1 m i, and the thief: under which are thefe verles:
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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A man of imagination this aide-de-camp, for when at his command M. M.urey showed him over the palace and pointed out the gaps in the collections made by the soldiers’ pilfery, he said with an all-explanatory air, “But why didn’t you get souvenirs ready for the officers?”
The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship
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