Thesaurus / light-fingered

light-fingered

How to use light-fingered in a sentence

Behold a dumpy, comfortable British paterfamilias in a light flannel suit and a faded sun hat.

She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.

Mr. Jones swung round a large iron key he held in his hand, and light dawned upon him.

ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD

Distance, the uncertain light, and imagination, magnified it to a high wall; high as the wall of China.

The faint candle-light glimmered on a ponderous gilded cornice, which had also sustained violence.

CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU

And it was no light task, then, for six hundred men to keep the peace on a thousand miles of frontier.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

A look of passion came into the face of the watching boy, and again he fingered his revolver.

They were never refused, for their recipients looked upon them much in the light of a royal command.

I am pleading for a clear white light of education that shall go like the sun round the whole world.

The case may be kept in a light position, and when once under way it will rarely need any additional water.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985