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pilfering

/pil-fer/US // ˈpɪl fər //UK // (ˈpɪlfə) //

偷窃,偷窃行为,偷盗,偷窃罪

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : to steal, especially in small quantities.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, its former ally, on the pretext, never proven, that Kuwait was pilfering oil from Iraq.

  • The carpet bagger when not fighting the pestiferous vermin in the Chickahominy swamps was pilfering.

  • The pilfering is not so weak and lamentable when the copyist appropriates merely the idea and works it out in a new fashion.

  • For in that land all was done in those days by stealing; pilfering and robbing were among them from the beginning.

  • We have a much more important case for you than some petty pilfering Controller.

  • Before evening, the women went all on shore, and the men began to be troublesome and pilfering.