Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who purloins; a thief.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who purloins.
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- noun One who
purloins .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And right now she has a lot to say about the reign of a literate but power-drunk purloiner of antiquities, persecutor of open minds and blogs, who required the credulity of the West to be taken seriously even for a moment.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Egypt: Year Zero Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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And right now she has a lot to say about the reign of a literate but power-drunk purloiner of antiquities, persecutor of open minds and blogs, who required the credulity of the West to be taken seriously even for a moment.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Egypt: Year Zero Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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And right now she has a lot to say about the reign of a literate but power-drunk purloiner of antiquities, persecutor of open minds and blogs, who required the credulity of the West to be taken seriously even for a moment.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Egypt: Year Zero Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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As I ran at full speed, with my nose up in the atmosphere, and intent only upon the purloiner of my property, I suddenly perceived that my feet rested no longer upon terre firma; the fact is, I had thrown myself over a precipice, and should inevitably have been dashed to pieces, but for my good fortune in grasping the end of a long guide-rope, which descended from a passing balloon.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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If he is to be a purloiner, he is going to be the best of sharks.
Greed, religious intolerance, misunderstood enemies: How Rome Fell 2009
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As I ran at full speed, with my nose up in the atmosphere, and intent only upon the purloiner of my property, I suddenly perceived that my feet rested no longer upon terra-firma; the fact is, I had thrown myself over a precipice, and should inevitably have been dashed to pieces but for my good fortune in grasping the end of a long guide-rope which depended from a passing balloon.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Something was happening, in between, up there 2009
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Perhaps this dim-bulb mayor, and the MSM in fawning over Klepto Deb, are confusing pragmatist with pilferer or purloiner or maybe larcenist.
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The purloiner of my own book called himself Stormysky, and carefully hid his tracks.
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The enlightened reader, seeing this patch of cloth of gold upon a blanket, soon detects the bungling purloiner.
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He is a perpetual plunderer -- a petty purloiner -- a pinching petitioner _in forma pauperis_ -- a contraband dealer in snuff.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various
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