Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: theft
IPA transcription: [θ'ɛft]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing
    Meaning: the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"
Usage examples
  • The police accused the stablemen of being parties to the theft, in which I think they were right.
  • He would have preferred not to find the keys; but to go to the head-master with a story of their theft.
  • And where thou tookest the crown of gold thou sinnest in covetise and in theft: all this were no knightly deeds.
  • It was not long, however, before many of them were arrested and put to death for theft, when the rest speedily decamped.
  • "Thief," she cried coarsely, "do you think I am ignorant of the theft of the ring, and what difficulty you had to escape the executioner's sword?
  • The part Kit had played in this made the dwarf hate him, if possible, more than ever, and he agreed to pay Brass, his rascally lawyer, to ruin the lad by making a false charge of theft against him.
  • They are, naturally, inclined to theft, and the best education only converts them into servile and flattering robbers; for they have the same address, subtlety, and inclination for mischief or rapine.
  • Constantly bent upon theft and rapine, though in a domestic state, it is full of cunning and dissimulation: it conceals all its designs, seizes every opportunity of doing mischief, and then flies from punishment.
  • Every intelligent man comprehends that murder, theft, treachery, falsehood, hypocrisy and cruelty are evil and reprehensible; for if you prick a man with a thorn, he will cry out, complain and groan; so it is evident that he will understand that murder according to reason is evil and reprehensible.
  • I have made the Seven Lights, the constellation of the Bear, lament for the theft of the Rose, and I have made the Dragon, the constellation Draco, the guardian of the Rose, because these constellations move about the pole of the heavens, the ancient Tree of Life in many countries, and are often associated with the Tree of Life in mythology.