kleptomaniac
Example Sentences
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He is a cat burglar - a kleptomaniac kitty who apparently cannot be reformed.
From BBC • Dec. 25, 2022
The next film under Hedren’s contract was Marnie, about a kleptomaniac with mental health problems.
From The Guardian • Oct. 31, 2016
Her Dame Judi Dench is a kleptomaniac mischief-maker, clogging toilets in five-star hotels just because as a “national treasure,” she can get away with it.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2016
Ultimately, the peripatetic, kleptomaniac Orme is undone by the world’s refusal to sit still and be captured by him.
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015
The door was locked, naturally, but it may as well not have been for all the challenge it presented to a kleptomaniac dwarf.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
