(n.) The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Female offenders report most of their income as coming from drugs sales, shoplifting, and larceny.
(2) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
(3) Aged 15, he was convicted of petty larceny at Wimbledon juvenile court, having stolen goods worth £2.
(4) Pulse oximetry was used to confirm higher hemoglobin oxygen saturation to establish the leukocyte larceny.
(5) Others were potentially more serious, a bomb threat in March 2003 in which an anonymous caller told the club’s receptionist: “there will be a bomb tonight that will blow” before hanging up the phone (the threat was unfounded); a drunk driver who rammed into barricades outside Mar-a-Lago in 1994 because “he disliked Donald Trump”, and 14 incidents of theft and larceny.
(6) The 32 people arrested will face charges that could include assault, larceny and burglary, he added.
(7) But, essentially, it persists by glorying in the fantastic, if basic, idea that a batch of old barrels, an outdoor paddling pool, a sand pit and some strategically arranged planks and ropes can successfully transport kids to a world of larceny on the high seas.
(8) There were "small incidents" with Roma accused of pilfering firewood or vegetables and other petty crime, but only 12 "petty larcenies" were reported to police during the first four months of 2011.
(9) Because this making off with our public property is nothing more than legalised larceny.
(10) Ceglia was arrested and charged with criminal fraud and grand larceny in 2009, after the wood pellet company he and his wife run failed to deliver $200,000 worth of orders to customers in four states.
(11) Only 72 sample members were arrested during the period, mostly for burglary or larceny (22 arrests), simple or aggravated assault (17 arrests), and minor offenses (40 arrests), including drunkenness, trespassing, and traffic violations.
(12) The fantastic scale of his subsequent larceny became apparent when American inquiries into a collapsed bank discovered that Obiang controlled $700m in deposits there alone.
(13) 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.
(14) But three days later the new civilian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, took office: when more evidence emerged of undisclosed Mohammed bank accounts in Europe totalling $1bn, the new government decided to try and recover what it saw as the proceeds of grand larceny.
(15) The suspect, Robert J "Joe" Halderman, was arrested yesterday and indicted on one count of attempted first-degree grand larceny, punishable from five to 15 years upon conviction, Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau said.
(16) Bizarrely, Brown, the man whose light-touch regulation of the UK banking sector encouraged the greed, corruption and larceny that now characterise them, portrayed the SNP as a rich man's party.
(17) Recidivism rates aren’t parsed out by the type of drug used by various offenders, but I know from seeing almost 85% of my cellmates return to prison while I was still there that the recidivism rate for opiate addicts is very high, especially after totaling drug-related charges like possession and distribution with drug-complicated charges like burglary and larceny.
(18) The testimony of the colourful 70-year-old – nicknamed Mr 10% due to the cash he topsliced from every marketing deal for two decades – was given in secret to a New York judge in 2013 but only made public on Wednesday, and laid out in stark detail the scale of the larceny.
(19) However, it is inappropriate in many cases where non-violent confusional crimes, such as petty larceny, have been committed.
(20) Leukemic patients with extremely high white blood counts may exhibit the phenomenon of leukocyte larceny, in which white blood cells metabolize plasma oxygen in arterial blood gas samples (ABG) producing a spuriously low oxygen tension.
Thieving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thieve
Example Sentences:
(1) He shrugs his shoulders and laughs: "And they call us thieves!"
(2) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(3) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
(4) Rising numbers of consumers are finding they are subject to thieves who tamper with their gas and electricity meters to redirect some of their supply.
(5) My suspicion is there was something [the thieves] were specifically after, otherwise why would they have taken some and left others?” The stolen goods would range from family heirlooms, personal jewellery and dealers’ stock, he said.
(6) Capitalism has brought job insecurity and economic instability, and given power to those who are good at thieving.
(7) The agreement that the International Atomic Energy Agency reached with Iran is a pact among thieves.
(8) In Thursday's robbery the thieves all fled the scene within minutes.
(9) It was like a bomb went off in the room.” Arrest the thieves and embezzlers who are plundering Iraq | Letters Read more Abadi has placed much of his political stock on his reform drive, which he sees as essential to holding the country together.
(10) US officers in Daytona Beach in 2010 were able to prevent a car burglary after one of the thieves "butt-dialed" the police halfway through the crime.
(11) They were soon able to verify their authenticity and, retracing the paintings' steps, they decided that the works in all probability were taken by the thieves by train from Paris to Turin, but were abandoned on board, possibly during border checks.
(12) Within hours of their death, Egyptian authorities accused them of being part of a gang of thieves that targeted foreigners, and an alleged house raid linked them to a heinous act : the torture and murder of an Italian researcher named Giulio Regeni .
(13) The activity of burglars more often then the thieves' one goes over into the night.
(14) "Did you expect something different from these crooks and thieves?
(15) Surely, she of all people doesn’t need to be told what happened to the Labour party in Scotland when, during the independence referendum, it fell among thieves and started spending too much time with social delinquents?
(16) There was fine work from the Dardenne brothers – their Le Gamin au Vélo was a modern reworking of Oliver Twist and Bicycle Thieves .
(17) Football also evolves, just as the world, cars, computers do, so you have to keep evolving and immersing yourself in those changes.” It was telling that in April, when thieves broke into his parked car and stole various personal belongings, not only did he lose a contacts book with 20 years’ worth of professional associates, but also an iPad containing a draft of the football book he is working on.
(18) They exhibited no wider cause or motivation beyond miserable thieving.
(19) Tesco Bank cyber-thieves stole £2.5m from 9,000 people Read more Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar, said the discounters were being hit as they were now up against very strong rates of growth a year ago, while Tesco’s resurgence had made life more difficult.
(20) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.