(n.) One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
Example Sentences:
(1) I've been mistaken for a parent, a pickpocket, and even, God forbid, an SUV owner, and I've always been able to brush it off.
(2) Moments later it was Ronaldo's run and cross that caused Gaël Clichy problems as Di Maria looked to pickpocket him, as the pattern of Real dominance continued.
(3) Documents published by the Hillsborough independent panel relating to the Sun's April 1989 "The Truth" front page splash, which falsely alleged that drunken Liverpool fans had urinated on police and pickpocketed the dead: 1.
(4) Apart from the sweat and steam they bring into the chapel, the sheer number of visitors has been criticised for giving the space the feel of a busy train station, complete with pickpockets.
(5) We need this type of framework to stop the government of the day pickpocketing the foreign aid budget at their will,” acting Greens leader Adam Bandt said.
(6) One sub-category that showed a 6% rise was personal thefts, such as pickpocketing and mobile phone snatches.
(7) Excluding the foreigner-specific crimes, Germans committed three-quarters of offences recorded in 2015, but crimes by non-Germans were up 12.8%, including document forgery, pickpocketing and home burglaries, De Maizière said.
(8) After one of his interceptions – featuring the pickpocketing of Kolarov – Sissoko charged 50 yards only to spare Joe Hart by shooting too early.
(9) MPs on the all-parliamentary party group on Gypsies, Travellers and Roma sounded the alarm about provocative language as a prominent Tory council leader suggested some Roma are planning to come to the UK to "pickpocket and aggressively beg" following the end of labour market controls on the two eastern European countries.
(10) Lee Cattermole dallied in possession and was pickpocketed by Álvaro Negredo.
(11) Romanians and Bulgarians, on the other hand, are today's "wretched of the earth", described by Trevor Kavanagh in The Sun as variably corrupt, as rapists and as pickpockets.
(12) Police in Hamburg said some aspects of the attackers’ methods were akin to those of skilled pickpockets operating in the city.
(13) The main true opposition political parties stood united behind the young people who instigated and led the revolution, and petty crimes such as harassment and pickpocketing – which had been at epidemic levels in Cairo – all but disappeared throughout the revolution.
(14) An initial internal police report released to the Kölner Stadt Anzeiger said that among an estimated 100 men questioned by police over their behaviour during the evening there were not only trickster pickpockets typical to the area – so-called ‘Äntanzer’ or ‘waltzers’ – who dance with their victims, unbalance them and use the opportunity to rob them, but also newly arrived refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
(15) A cold-hearted miser bullied by ghosts into gaining a conscience has triumphed over a festering, jilted bride and an alcoholic, nihilistic barrister – not to mention the odd pickpocket and escaped convict – to be named the most popular Charles Dickens character.
(16) "The teachers support us," they continue, speaking into a bicycle-powered public address system, which just about rises above an announcement to watch out for pickpockets.
(17) We even get pickpockets in here, just like at a street market," he added.
(18) "But I think the fear that everybody faces is those that come to Britain and either fail to find jobs and therefore fall back on our welfare system, or those who deliberately come here to pickpocket and aggressively beg.
(19) However, the annual crime figures show a 2% rise in some types of property crime, especially in unattended personal property, such as garden sheds, pickpocketing and thefts of commercial materials, particularly metal.
(20) Bresson in films like Pickpocket or A Man Escaped watches souls striving for redemption; Hitchcock in Psycho or Vertigo explores the incurably neurotic mind.
Thief
Definition:
(n.) One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
(n.) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a gripping read from the opening, with the Ku Klux Klan menacing his pregnant mother, through to the troubled last months of his life: we follow Malcolm Little, common thief, on his journey to Malcolm X , inspirational leader.
(2) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
(3) The popularity of criminal memoirs in the 1990s brought new opportunities and Reynolds wrote The Autobiography of a Thief in 1995.
(4) The following messages are elaborated: osteoporosis is a silent thief; backache during the menopause is not always osteoporosis; detection of the patient at risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible; primary osteoarthrosis protects against osteoporosis; bone densitometry has given osteoporosis a scientific cachet; bones are not stones, effective prevention and treatment are possible, there are alternatives to calcium and hormone replacement therapies.
(5) A suspected jewel thief was killed and another seriously injured during a police chase after an attempted ram raid at one of the London branches of the jewellers Tiffany and Co yesterday.
(6) 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.
(7) In my part of the world, we have a saying that the man who carries a pot of palm oil from the ceiling is not the only thief.
(8) Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House intelligence committee, suggested Greenwald was a “thief” after he worked with news organizations who paid for stories based on the documents.
(9) Gina Rinehart's son, John Hancock, called his youngest sister "an oxygen thief", a Sydney court heard during the latest battle over control of the family's multibillion-dollar trust.
(10) The criminals For many years after the second world war, George “Taters” Chatham was Britain’s busiest jewel thief.
(11) Procrastination is the thief of time.” Last week, the chancellor echoed the exact same sentiments – “the sooner you start the smoother the ride” – as he announced a raft of Whitehall spending cuts as a down payment on the £25bn he’s planning to spend over the next three years.
(12) Ibori, a petty thief who rose to be one of Nigeria’s richest men, received a 13-year jail sentence in London in 2012 after admitting fraud of nearly £50m.
(13) Holder was fatally shot in the city’s East Harlem neighborhood while pursuing a bicycle thief.
(14) Another, Julie Behar, wrote that Madoff deserved a "sentence befitting a thief and murderer" while a Connecticut doctor said the entire retirement plan of his practice had been wiped out, leaving 140 employees with nothing.
(15) A few synaptic contacts between two adjacent chief cells are seen, and so are direct contacts between thief cells and preganglionic efferent nerve fibers terminating on ganglion cells.
(16) Incidentally, these sad long-term cases will do more than twice the maximum any court can sentence a thief to on Community Payback.
(17) You can wait until a cop gets here,” Bike Batman said he told the thief.
(18) The thief left the building unnoticed, then returned the artwork the next day by throwing it over the wall of the sculpture garden.
(19) But presumably the Sun also believes that you shouldn’t point out there’s a fire down the road if your own house isn’t burning down, and you should never chase after a thief who robbed the woman next to you if your own wallet is still safely secured in your pocket.
(20) He also called the incumbent president a “genocidaire”, a thief and a pyromaniac in a Facebook post that led to Bongo opening proceedings against him.