Adjective : a furtive, thievish look.    From Dictionary.com. 

His next sentence was uttered in the thievish cant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortress of the Pearl]

They marched thro 'our Land with a bloody thievish Band.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Jacobites By Name] Reference

His prayer resembles that of the thievish trader in Ovid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Symposium] Reference

Mexico, as everybody knows, is decidedly a thievish place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference

They would still retain their idle and thievish propensities. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

Contains the incident of the mock trial of the thievish house-dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

It is humiliating to reflect, that a thievish orator at one of our.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864] Reference

Hang them! "said he sternly;" hang them up by their own thievish arkáus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference

Annamooka arose from the thievish disposition of many of the inhabitants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference

Negroes themselves are less treacherous and thievish, than they are in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference

Chremylus enters with Carion "his most faithful and most thievish servant".    From Wordnik.com.  [Authors of Greece] Reference

And harmless, what there is of 'em; but as thievish as a set of jackdaws. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

But one day, as he came along, a great number of thievish dogs were waiting for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables Amusement for Good Little Children] Reference

Suppose that there comes into the province a thievish proconsul, what coin does he use?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference

If a dog had but dared to breathe upon the sacred spot, he had met the fate of a thievish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference

Persecutest thou thy kingdom by the help of thievish or covetous men, or minors, or women?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

The heads about the cavern were thicker than the thievish ravens in a field of milky corn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference

You say they are not so thievish in Virginia, propagate faster, and are less depraved: Why?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference

"When the children are thievish and given to bad language and lying, what do you do?" he asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Two Children Did] Reference

Why, I am thrusting my head into their thievish noose myself; I am tying the noose with my own hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Double] Reference

He is ungrateful and faithful to the death, honest and thievish, all in one and the same specimen of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

` ` Away with your Schilo! '' yelled the crowd; ` ` what kind of a Cossack is he who is as thievish as a Tatar?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference

Thy mother doth complain, and implores thy aid against this thievish people who have newly intruded on our land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Types of Children's Literature] Reference

When added to nouns, it signifies similitude or tendency to a character; as, "Child, childish; thief, thievish.".    From Wordnik.com.  [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference

In this unhappy state a considerable space of time was spent, until, for some other thievish exploits of her own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference

O monarch, employest thou in thy business persons that are thievish or open to temptation, or hostile, or minors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

Thy mother doth complain, and implores thy aid against this thievish people, who have newly intruded on our land.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference

And intertwining with one another, they quickly grew and covered all the wild-roving cattle by the will of thievish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference

I was absent but a few minutes, and, on returning, met one of the thievish Nurses with Carver's great-coat in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference

They had heard of the thievish raids made by the black bear on unprotected camps, and of his special fondness for pork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference

Or again, why blame a lying, thievish Isosceles when you ought rather to deplore the incurable inequality of his sides?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flatland: a romance of many dimensions] Reference

The woman said: "A lawyer will do this"; the man said: "Splendid is the bargain and costly and thievish are old lawyers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference

I ought to say that other people, who should know him better than I, say he is a treacherous, thievish, murderous cannibal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

After his death, Pinkel became king; and let up hope that he gave up his bad and thievish ways, and ruled his subjects well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orange Fairy Book] Reference

Nor yet will she be changed into a chough, but will steal from you, chiefly in the night, as is the nature of that thievish bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

Gipsies, (which are now ascertained to be a Hindoo tribe, driven from their country in the fifteenth century,) are not less thievish in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828] Reference

These people are very simple in all their conversation, but marvellous thievish, especially for iron, which they have in great account.    From Wordnik.com.  [The North-West Passage] Reference

Look you, with this cudgel have I got back the wishing-table and the gold-ass which the thievish inn-keeper took away from my brothers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Household Tales] Reference