(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.
Trickster
Definition:
(n.) One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
Example Sentences:
(1) In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist ; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals.
(2) Roberto says that more than one Premier League club has mad an offer to Ronaldinho, but the Brazilian trickster is more likely to move to the United States or Asia.
(3) In the central legend, a trickster character called Mr Clevver encourages Eusa to find and tear in two someone called "the Littl Shynin Man the Addom".
(4) If you want to see sleaze, just look in the mirror.” He also bridles slightly at the mention of the other phrase that is frequently applied to him – dirty trickster.
(5) The Ecuadorian trickster measured his pass to Wilfried Bony, who opened up his body to guide the ball unerringly into the far corner of the goal.
(6) 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.
(7) Trump may say misogynist things, but other Republican candidates do them | Jessica Valenti Read more It’s true, like his fans have said , that the turds hurtling out of Trump’s mouth-hole aren’t created by committee and vetted by a campaign operative (though Nixonian dirty trickster Roger Simon says he tried ).
(8) It was alleged that Martin Van Buren dressed up in women’s clothes, that Abraham Lincoln fathered mulatto children – this is part and parcel of American politics.” But it would be hard not to conclude that “dirty trickster” is a fair label to pin on a man who firmed up his reputation for hardball tactics working on Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaigns, had a hand in the prostitute-laden downfall of the former New York governor Eliot Spitzer and consulted for a number of controversial foreign clients, including the president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos.
(9) Also the risk retirees may squander their retirement fund with the likelihood that they will be targeted by holiday companies or other luxury pursuits that are popular in early retirement years, or even confidence tricksters keen to grab some of the cash lump sum.
(10) The North's official Korean central news agency said in a 2,700-word English-language statement about the decision to execute Jang Song-thaek: – "Every sentence of the decision served as sledgehammer blow brought down by our angry service personnel and people on the head of Jang, an anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional element and despicable political careerist and trickster.'
(11) 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.
(12) AM: French President François Hollande is the mercurial trickster playing between the lines but not quite sure of his role or his aims.
(13) The defense portrayed Wildstein as a liar and a dirty trickster – “the Bernie Madoff of New Jersey politics” – and argued that Christie and his inner circle had thrown Kelly under the bus.
(14) A folktale analysis of these materials shows that they are most appropriately described as typical of the "trickster" figure in folkloric genre.
(15) The FSA and PwC collaborated and conspired to carry out a regulatory ‘hatchet job’ on Keydata and on me.” Victims of the Keydata collapse have branded Ford a heartless financial trickster, but he has always claimed he is as much a victim as the savers.
(16) The BFG shares a common core with Rooster, Rylance’s epoch-making trickster-troubadour-tout in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, which also delved deep into ancient English myths and pagan archetypes.
(17) He has nearly 40 years experience as a security expert for US law enforcement agencies, having switched sides when he was eventually caught by the FBI after spending half his teenage years on the run as a confidence trickster, imposter, cheque forger and escape artist in the 1960s.
(18) The man who published his autobiography Songs My Mother Taught Me, in 1994, was already cynical to the point of nihilism, a tease and a trickster, yet always most mocking of himself.
(19) A science writer calling the theorists who are actually doing the research "confidence tricksters'' or Stephen Hawking "a fairytale physicist'' doesn't cut the mustard.
(20) If you've been infected by Cryptolocker, your files really are gone unless you have a backup Some ransomware is little more than a confidence trickster, presenting a message asking for payment without having done anything to the user's files.