Usually the kleptomaniac is a woman, with an insane desire to steal for the mere sake of stealing. From Wordnik.com. [The Dream Doctor] Reference
A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he - can’t help himself. From Wordnik.com. [The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said] Reference
Leastwise 'kleptomaniac' is what Colonel Sterett calls it when he's tellin 'me of a party who's afflicted sim'lar. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfville Nights] Reference
He is quite mad, and a much more obvious public pest than any other kind of kleptomaniac; but though he is a cheat, he is not an illusion. From Wordnik.com. [A Miscellany of Men] Reference
Bree discovers Orson secret - he is a kleptomaniac. From Wordnik.com. ["Desperate Housewives" Spring 2009 Spoilers] Reference
She might be some sort of a kleptomaniac, Malone thought. From Wordnik.com. [Out Like a Light] Reference
It is the same sort of trouble which afflicts a kleptomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [From a Girl's Point of View] Reference
But there was no attempt to prove that she was a kleptomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2002] Reference
(This, you perceive, is from the same Greek root as kleptomaniac.). From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
"Perhaps she is a kleptomaniac -- you know there are such people.". From Wordnik.com. [For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store] Reference
KING: Now, the kleptomaniac, if that's the correct term, does this, why?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2002] Reference
This young criminal was evidently a suburban burglar and a kleptomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
Andrew Keen says you're a pajamad monkey intellectual-kleptomaniac Communist!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
He was now a kleptomaniac and serving a six-month sentence for house-breaking. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Here was a little kleptomaniac whose weakness the mother was struggling to hide. From Wordnik.com. [Initials Only] Reference
But now the culprit has been unmasked as a kleptomaniac cat with a generous nature. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-07-11] Reference
ALF sees Jake's kleptomaniac mother arrives for a visit, and steals a broach from Kate. From Wordnik.com. [ALF Episode Guide by Dean Adams] Reference
This kleptomaniac, flatulent dwarf has played a reluctant part in many of the Fowl adventures. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer] Reference
If Judith, as Marian boldly declared, were really a kleptomaniac, she was a menace to Madison Hall. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference
He's a therapist and author of the book "Something for Nothing" and a recovering kleptomaniac himself. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2005] Reference
Now, I am not going to be the person that comes on television and accuses her of being a kleptomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2009] Reference
She might be a kleptomaniac, where she ` s doing it not for money, not for anything other than a thrill. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2007] Reference
In other words, Lynette may be interested in Tom's job herself and Orson may be revealed as kleptomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
"When a poor woman steals she's an out-and-out thief; but when a rich woman steals she's a kleptomaniac.". From Wordnik.com. [For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store] Reference
Ask him where all the money went, starting with the kleptomaniac who was Plett's beloved and wept over Arafat?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
That also he knew, but as a kleptomaniac knows, without profiting by the knowledge, that it is wrong to steal. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
Not since Orson became a kleptomaniac overnight has a plot line gone from zero to 60 on the crazy scale with such speed. From Wordnik.com. [Mega Buzz: A Glee Romance Update, a Bones Death, and Office Drinking] Reference
As most kleptomaniac politicians are also psychopaths, they rarely feel remorse or fear the consequences of their misdeeds. From Wordnik.com. [Why Are Politicians Corrupt?] Reference
Is it more of a problem, do you think, when the person who is a kleptomaniac sees her picture in the paper or on television?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2002] Reference
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang plans to speak out about media allegations that she is an alcoholic and a kleptomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
HAMMER: Also making the naughty list, Lindsay Lohan, the Grinch, Darth Vader, the kleptomaniac Fox, Swiper, from Dora the Explorer. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2007] Reference
SMERCONISH: Well, if her story truly is that she was rehearsing to play the role of a kleptomaniac, I don't think that's going to fly. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2002] Reference
What if she were one of those persons one reads of in books whom continued poverty had made dishonest, or perhaps she was a kleptomaniac?. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
No thief, for example, is such an utter thief -- so GOOD a thief -- as the kleptomaniac. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Habit] Reference
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