thieving

The action of theft.

Adjective

  1. That thieves; that steals; inclined to steal
    • From her point of view, sex itself, or sexual awareness, is the thief that stole away her innocence (which completes the picture of Thomas's totally thieving world). - 1966, William T. Moynihan, The craft and art of...
    • The landlady was "a desperately mean old specimen... who employed a very thieving set of servants," - 2001, Mary Elizabeth Massey, George C. Rable, Refugee life in the Confederacy:

Derived

thievingly

Noun

  1. The action of theft.
    • "There's nothing to spend your thievings on up here." - 1910, Amy McLaren, Bawbee Jock:

Forms

thievings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of thieve