Adjective : a furtive, thievish look. From Dictionary.com.
In a little time after others came and played the same game, only adding to their abominable thievishness by driving off our mules and all our cattle. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
Amongst other points, the alleged thievishness of the. From Wordnik.com. [Historic China, and other sketches] Reference
It arose rather from the thievishness of the negroes. From Wordnik.com. [Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina] Reference
There they met the same experience as the Spaniards from the thievishness of the natives. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Philippine Islands] Reference
So too the habitual thievishness of the highlanders is pressed upon us quite as vividly as their gallantry and superstitions. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)] Reference
The first land seen was the little group of islands called Ladrones from the thievishness of the inhabitants, and a short stay was made at. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
During my residence at Long Island, I raised one year with another, ten cart loads of watermelons, and lost a great many besides by the thievishness of the sailors. From Wordnik.com. [A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture Smith, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America. Related by Himself. New London: Printed in 1798. Reprinted A. D. 1835, and Published by a Descendant of Venture. Revised and Republished with Traditions by H. M. Selden, Haddam, Conn., 1896.] Reference
He feared that, do what he might, they would not escape the inquisitive thievishness of the parrots, whose strong beaks could easily cut leather; but he could do nothing more. From Wordnik.com. [Erewhon Revisited] Reference
During my residence at Long-Island, I raised one year with another, ten cart loads of water-melons, and lost a great many every year besides by the thievishness of the sailors. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Adventures of Venture]
Certainly in American slavery he showed a decided tendency to petty thievishness, so that it was necessary to throw a great deal of legal restraint around his petty business relations with others. From Wordnik.com. [Slavery in the State of North Carolina] Reference
But that crude, corporal fever had a providential thievishness; and not content with stripping me of health and strength, -- not satisfied with pilfering inventiveness and any strong hunger to create -- why, that insatiable fever even robbed me of my insanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Certain Hour] Reference
Hogarth's back was toward him, the iron leg lying near a box in which was a sitting hen, on its top a candlestick, the calico bag, and a lot of the gems: at which the priest's palm covered his awed mouth, and with a fleet thievishness, like a cat on hot bricks, he trotted back to the cottage. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Sea] Reference
She would work for such a one until the nails dropped off her fingers and her feet crumpled up under her body; but a policeman or a rich person, or a person who ordered one about ...! until she died and was buried in the depths of the world, she would never give in to such a person or admit anything but their thievishness and ill-breeding. From Wordnik.com. [Mary, Mary] Reference
(where, under the pretence of seeing whether his servants were being properly fed, he made a light meal of cabbage soup and gruel), rated the said servants soundly for their thievishness and general bad behaviour, and then returned to his room. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Souls] Reference
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Anton coldly replied, "Although I have promised not to bring your thievishness to judgment, yet we can never deal with you again. From Wordnik.com. [Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag] Reference
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