While all private enterprisers are righteous, all public bureaucrats are grafters, remember that someone could mention those larcenously talented unit managers at NBC. From Wordnik.com. [How to Get Ahead: From an Address to the Yale Graduating Class] Reference
"Why is it then that Mr. Stener charges Mr. Cowperwood with larcenously securing and feloniously disposing of a check for sixty thousand dollars for certificates which he had a right to buy, and which it has not been contested here that he did buy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier, a novel] Reference
“Why is it then that Mr. Stener charges Mr. Cowperwood with larcenously securing and feloniously disposing of a check for sixty thousand dollars for certificates which he had a right to buy, and which it has not been contested here that he did buy?. From Wordnik.com. [The Financier] Reference
Gem 2 - "... who would care about Pericles today had he not given a sublime funeral oration - as reported by General Thucydides, Retired - in which he reminded the Athenians that an empire like theirs, no matter how larcenously acquired, is a very dangerous thing to let go?. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (Vintage Paperback, 2002), by Gore Vidal] Reference
"Inordinate," he said, "larcenously inordinate. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]
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