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kleptomaniac

[klep-tuh-mey-nee-ak] / ˌklɛp təˈmeɪ niˌæk /
NOUN
stealer
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He is a cat burglar - a kleptomaniac kitty who apparently cannot be reformed.

From BBC Dec. 25, 2022

I’m pretty sure it’s from a neighbor many, many years ago when I was a slightly kleptomaniac child, but I was a child and may have that wrong.

From Washington Post Jun. 18, 2022

When I ask if she still has the jewellery gifted to her by Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, she replies, bereft: “No, it was stolen, by a kleptomaniac married to one of the Beach Boys.”

From The Guardian May 6, 2018

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

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




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