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n. - A person who takes something from someone unlawfully

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Usage examples (4)
  • No penance for the adulterer, stocks for the drunkard, whip for the petty larcener, brand for the felon, gallows for the murderer.
  • The Vicomte passed at once from the popular admiration one bestows on a hero to the popular contempt with which one regards a petty larcener.
  • Nevertheless, as an upright man will never wish barefacedly to steal from others, so does he determine at all times to claim independently his own: to be robbed, and not resent...
  • And it doesn’t do any good trying to pretend you’re dodging out to pinch a petty larcener when I know jolly well what you are up to, and, to be perfectly honest, am...
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