purloiner

The difference today is that now there are just a handful of large tech companies—and some of those giants, after benefitting from thefts, are worried that they might be on the wrong side of the purloiner dynamic going forward.

Not only were no officers available to go to Water Orton but, once the device had been recovered, its purloiner got no more than a virtual slap on the wrist: a "stern" warning, over the phone.

But it happened that Hobbes had allowed a French acquaintance to have a private translation of his reply made by a young Englishman, who secretly took a copy of the original for himself; and now it was this unnamed purloiner who, in 1654, when Hobbes had become famous and feared, gave it to the world of his own motion, with an extravagantly laudatory epistle to the reader in its front.

The short bursts sometimes obtained in "cub hunting" are capital practice for a lady; while occasionally a veteran fox, some wily old purloiner of poultry, affords a good twenty or five-and-twenty minutes, even when the fences are blind.

‘Yes,’ rejoined the Prince, ‘and you are the purloiner,’ at the same time taking from the seat whereon the officer had been sitting the crushed crust of the asserted missing tarts, and adding, ‘This is a sad blot upon your reputation as a vigilant officer.’