Definition of "kleptomaniacal" []

• Having a compulsion to steal, as a kleptomaniac does. (adjective)

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• "On competition among states for firms and migrants: The main point is that if the politics of one state become sufficiently kleptomaniacal, productive people and firms can relocate to escape the plundering."
• "Last September, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon -- a second-tier South Korean bureaucrat kicked upstairs to succeed the kleptomaniacal Kofi Annan -- proclaimed that absent an immediate ten-trillion dollar [yes, $10-trillion] "contribution" by guess-who Planet Earth would transform into "a baking desert" by New Year's 2010."
• "Donors are understandably cool to the idea of giving money to the government in light of its kleptomaniacal tendencies, but there are ways to avoid the central bank."