Definition of "thievish" [thiev•ish]

• Given to thieving. (adjective)
• Of, similar to, or characteristic of a thief; furtive. (adjective)

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• "Commission head Aleksandr Gurov said Ryabov called the articles on the expenditure of regional offices "thievish" and called federal and regional authorities "the subjects of theft.""
• "It looked to Kellen as if the Centaur had been up to his old thievish tricks again, and this time he'd had the poor judgment to try robbing a bee-tree when the bees were all at home."
• "So all we got was what was in that one keep—and mine is half spent already, for the merchants here are a thievish lot."