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# thievish

«thievish» in Mova's school dictionary: **fond of stealing, or like a thief in the way one acts** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more thievish, most thievish)

### meaning for a pupil

Thievish means fond of stealing, or like a thief in the way one acts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thievish/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a crowd, a character or a way of living that steals or cheats; in tales a sly, stealing gang or king who has given up bad, thievish ways

### examples

- "The thievish rabble!" said the Thistle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thievish/#x1)
- Pinkel gave up his bad and thievish ways. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thievish/#x2)
- A thievish fox crept into the hen house at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thievish/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thievish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thievish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.