larcenous

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Above and beyond is Bonnie Milligan, portraying Pattie’s larcenous sister Debra, a woman of no known address but who might be elected president if she could redirect that cyclonic energy away from antisocial impulses.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2022

You have to look at footnote information — provenance citations in object labels — to learn of this larcenous history.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2022

Aladdin, a poor but engagingly larcenous “street rat” and sheltered princess Jasmine are kindred spirits in that they’re trapped by their circumstances and want to break free.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2019

Mr. Tudyk played an arrogant internet billionaire in “Big Hero 6,” the shifty Duke of Weselton in “Frozen” and, as an in-joke to “Frozen” fans, Duke Weaselton, a larcenous weasel, in this year’s “Zootopia.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2016

I knew Mrs. Joe’s housekeeping to be of the strictest kind, and that my larcenous researches might find nothing available in the safe.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens