larcenous

Example Sentences

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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

Mr. Wolf, the lupine leader of the larcenous critters at the center of the delightful animated comedy “The Bad Guys,” knows whereof he speaks.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 2022

Still, don't count out Writers Guild winner “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” which has its passionate fans and is, in its own larcenous way, about the very act of adaptation itself.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 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