kleptomaniac

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A kleptomaniac cat notorious for stealing items from its neighbours has "finally brought home something of real value" - £25.70 in cash.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2019

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

Ms. Estefan wasn’t on television calling Madonna a kleptomaniac, and Latin freestyle and Latin artists weren’t part of any identifiable movement.

From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2015

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