pilfering
/pil-fer/US // ˈpɪl fər //UK // (ˈpɪlfə) //
偷窃,偷窃行为,偷盗,偷窃罪
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Definitions
- 1
- : to steal, especially in small quantities.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, its former ally, on the pretext, never proven, that Kuwait was pilfering oil from Iraq.
The carpet bagger when not fighting the pestiferous vermin in the Chickahominy swamps was pilfering.
The pilfering is not so weak and lamentable when the copyist appropriates merely the idea and works it out in a new fashion.
For in that land all was done in those days by stealing; pilfering and robbing were among them from the beginning.
We have a much more important case for you than some petty pilfering Controller.
Before evening, the women went all on shore, and the men began to be troublesome and pilfering.
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