- a variation of larcener.
larcenist
Example Sentences
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On many a petty larcenist as well as on many a bold manipulator has been fixed the title: "Wolf of Wall Street."
From Time Magazine Archive
They could not be stretched to cover the intervening periods, so Little Calamity did his best to be a petty larcenist with indifferent success.
From Old Man Curry Race Track Stories by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
Sum total—1st page of account— Josephs a larcenist and a corpse.
From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade
"Take her down to the cells," he said briefly, and they led her away, a wailing, woeful figure of amateur larcenist.
From The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace
"He is a man named Stay, a petty larcenist, and in my opinion a much more dangerous character than the police have realised."
From The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace
