thievish

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: thiev=ish

CIDE DICTIONARY

thievish, a. 

•  Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.  [1913 Webster]
•  Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret.  [1913 Webster]

  "Time's thievish progress to eternity."  [1913 Webster]
•  Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest; as, a thievish practice.  [1913 Webster]

  "Or with a base and biosterous sword enforce
  A thievish living on the common road."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

thievish, adj. given to stealing.

Derivative

thievishly adv. thievishness n.

ROGET THESAURUS

thievish

Stealing

N stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny, direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, Black Hand, thief, thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen, sic vos non vobis.