What's the difference between swag and thief?

Swag


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To hang or move, as something loose and heavy; to sway; to swing.
  • (v. i.) To sink down by its weight; to sag.
  • (n.) A swaying, irregular motion.
  • (n.) A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then my 3rd was KFC and I knew he was right July 7, 2016 Already there are reports of churches and police stations being flooded by Pokémon Trainers keen to find rare Pokémon or grab swag from PokéStops.
  • (2) He sat on the main stage beneath a blue and yellow swagging.
  • (3) Henry and his team will be taking no prisoners until the swag is safely gathered in.
  • (4) The clip of him shacking out to the dubstep tune Swag Music became a particularly big hit.
  • (5) Invariably someone tweets a picture of a dog with pro-Israel swag , and it’s always absurd.
  • (6) "G osh," gasps Lucy Worsley, peering intently at Edward I's pendulous swags.
  • (7) Seeing as I've already broken the fashion ranks by revealing the Great 57th Birthday Denim Swag Haul, I shall further anger my style overlords by confessing I strongly disagree with this rule.
  • (8) Undoubtedly John Humphrys would ask him how he justifies his mighty swag to a striking staff on considerably less than the median.
  • (9) In a city of hustlers, tricksters, and go-getters, where the right dose of swag and gumption gets you farther than a college degree can, Furo is a bumbling non-entity.
  • (10) People push and cluster their way through the narrow alleyways between stands carrying big bags of swag – usually black T-shirts and posters and little action figures.
  • (11) One huckster inside the de facto pope swag bazaar at the Columbus Circle subway station confirmed that he would resell any tickets – any tickets he obtained whatsoever – at a higher price than he had paid.
  • (12) As Essence magazine recently swooned: “Mr Ali has some serious swag … from his cool demeanour and radiant smile to his deep laugh and dope style”.
  • (13) There is a lovely wisteria outside, forming great swags of flowers around the window - it feels like being in a treetop bower.
  • (14) Spiders slung swags and trusses of silk in every corner.
  • (15) I’ve shared slightly embarrassed glances with other suspected Pokémon Go players when we’ve all ended up crowded around the same landmark, unloading swag from the PokéStop – but my excitement when a Crabby appeared in the dairy section at the local supermarket was not shared by passing shoppers, who no doubt couldn’t work out why I was enthusiastically “photographing” milk.
  • (16) No, you might not be carrying the Chanel swag about your person (although you might – honestly, that Oxfam in Kensington is a goldmine), but you're still looking good, so enjoy it.
  • (17) UK commissions for ITV1 include SWAGS, a six-part drama series about service wives and girlfriends, and historical drama Mr Selfridge.
  • (18) I slept in a swag – basically, a glorified sleeping bag cover.
  • (19) Now that he’s got his second-term swag on, he’s able to let loose a little bit,” she said.
  • (20) Last month, the FBI director, James Comey, told an audience: “I put a piece of tape over the camera because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera.” The corporate swag company Idea Stage Promotions describes its Webcam Cover 1.0 as “the HOTTEST PROMOTIONAL ITEM on the market today”.

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.