Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: thief
IPA transcription: [θ'if]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: thief, stealer
    Meaning: a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
Usage examples
  • THE MASTER THIEF
  • A thief who was trying to reform would.
  • "Quick--go after that man--he's a thief!"
  • At seven the child is vicious and a thief.
  • "Yes; by the moth and the rust and the thief."
  • "I said a band of thieves," insisted the thief.
  • "Grusha, you wanted to be honest, but I'm a thief.
  • 'A thief,' he answered, 'that I caught robbing me.'
  • "Because there the moth and rust and the thief come."
  • "You, I, and that thief La Mon are all that are left.