kleptomaniac
/klep-tuh-mey-nee-ak/US // ˌklɛp təˈmeɪ niˌæk //
偷窃癖者,盗窃癖者,偷窃癖,盗窃癖
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
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Psychology.
- : a person who has kleptomania.
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : of, relating to, or characteristic of kleptomania or a kleptomaniac.
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Examples
Swift is a rhythmic and melodic kleptomaniac, and I mean that as the highest of compliments.
One may be forgiven for wondering why she chose to move in—and stay for months—with a kleptomaniac roommate.
I knew a kleptomaniac, who got herself arrested more than once in the great shops of Paris for stealing various articles.
Here was a little kleptomaniac whose weakness the mother was struggling to hide.
Another oddity with whom I was associated was a kleptomaniac.
The kleptomaniac may be the most troublesome to the community; but is he more wicked than the others?
No thief, for example, is such an utter thief—so good a thief—as the kleptomaniac.
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