Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a larcenous or thievish manner; thievishly.
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- adverb In a
larcenous manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Ball states, "The premise glows with the innocence we forsook when Adam larcenously appropriated an apple from its rightful owner, the tree."
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The premise glows with the innocence we forsook when Adam larcenously appropriated an apple from its rightful owner, the tree.
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While all private enterprisers are righteous, all public bureaucrats are grafters, remember that someone could mention those larcenously talented unit managers at NBC.
How to Get Ahead: From an Address to the Yale Graduating Class Galbraith, John Kenneth 1979
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The premise glows with the innocence we forsook when Adam larcenously appropriated an apple from its rightful owner, the tree.
Evangelical Ecologist Blog - Conservative Christians and the Environment 2009
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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?
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 (Vintage Paperback, 2002), by Gore Vidal 2008
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“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?
The Financier 2004
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"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?
The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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