thievishness

According to Confucius there are seven grounds of divorce: disobedience, barrenness, lewd conduct, jealousy, leprosy or any other foul or incurable disease, too much talking, and thievishness.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

Although I have promised not to bring your thievishness to judgment, yet we can never deal with you again.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag

During my residence at Long-Island, I raised one year with another, ten cart loads of water-melons, and lost a great many every year besides by the thievishness of the sailors.

From A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself by Venture Smith

Eb pleaded that it was the newest and poorest member of the Galactic Federation, and should have been protected in its inexperience against his thievishness.

From The Eel by Miriam Allen DeFord

I saw few ebullitions of temper, much hospitality among the poor, no downright thievishness, but the irresistible tendency to pass bad money—which is accounted a venial failing in the Peninsula.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea