(a.) Having the character of larceny; as, a larcenous act; committing larceny.
Example Sentences:
(1) The classical subclavian steal syndrome is a larcenous vertebrobasilar insufficiency, secondary to retrograde flow in the vertebral artery.
(2) Once in government as universities minister, he decided to speed up the larcenous process by helping Cable triple fees.
Thievery
Definition:
(n.) The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.
(n.) That which is stolen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kanda creates Arca’s distorted imagery, such as the gender-blurring video for his Thievery single, in which a dancer’s jiggly butt cheeks are transposed onto Arca’s body, or their ongoing film project, Trauma, with its dancing babies that look like they’re made of melted wax.
(2) Let’s not rush to condemn someone for a little light thievery.
(3) It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.” In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger , professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.
(4) Rosanne Cash , Suzanne Vega , Thievery Corporation and Alice in Chains are among the other artists to have criticised Spotify and streaming in 2014, but other artists have been more positive.
(5) They mostly had a bad reputation and were known for thievery,” one activist said of the jihadists now in control of Yarmouk.
(6) Broken free of any semblance of family control or community restraints, thousands of American youth roamed entirely at will throughout the cities of 19th-century America and supported themselves alternately from the legitimate street trades and from outright thievery.
(7) Evidence suggests that ostensibly serious offenses such as assault, larceny, and burglary charged to homeless persons tended to involve petty thievery, entry into vacant buildings, and other acts aimed at maintaining subsistence in the absence of housing.
(8) Students responded to a four-part questionnaire designed to measure perceptions of theft incidence and seriousness, personal responsibility for correcting theft, causal attributions of theft, and perceived consequences of thievery.
(9) The mutual grudge match ranged from big issues – night raids, failure to treat Afghan military casualties with the same urgency as their own – to trivial ones - urinating in public, personal hygiene, thievery.
(10) Suddenly it's all about thievery and parasites and intestines.
(11) I despise thievery, I despise people taking money from union members,” he said.