adjective

• Relating to or given to stealing.

  ‘Are you talking about the thievish doings of organized crime, all those gangs we keep hearing about?’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Nor did we turn out noticeably more thievish, drug-addled, or unmotivated than nice suburban kids.’

  Synonyms

  thieving, thievish, stealing, pilfering, shoplifting, pocket-picking