thievishly

No. Instead of promoting widespread benefits, they are, for the most part, striving to become billionaires (called "kleptocrats" in a related Wikipedia citation below as they are thievishly parasitic on the body politic).

On Rejecting "The System" 2008

You, Who have granted us artists but a single faculty — that of aping You, of playing the Creator-and Who then freakishly and thievishly rob us of the power to do it ....

Succedaneum 2004

With this cat? quoth Panurge; the devil scratch me if I did not think it had been a young soft-chinned devil, which, with this same stocking instead of mitten, I had snatched up in the great hutch of hell as thievishly as any sizar of Montague college could have done.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

With this cat? quoth Panurge; the devil scratch me if I did not think it had been a young soft-chinned devil, which, with this same stocking instead of mitten, I had snatched up in the great hutch of hell as thievishly as any sizar of Montague college could have done.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

A person who thievishly appropriates small sums, but whose pilferings have no moral reference to each other, will find himself a mortal offender the moment his accumulated injustices reach the amount we have qualified as notable, provided he be at that moment aware of the fact, or even if he only have a doubt about the matter.

Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals

For few hounds, so closed, waste and destroy more grapes than many foxes should destroy that come and eat thereof thievishly.

Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

They are thievishly inclined as we have experienced.

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

Dutch gave them beads, knives, and other trifles; but they found them thievishly disposed, much like the natives of the Ladrones, and were so fond of iron, that they stole the nails from the cabin windows, and the bolts from the doors.

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. Robert Kerr 1784

Prior to the days of Bluetooth, men and women thievishly exchanged contact information on a piece of paper or just whispered their phone number to each other.

Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog 2010

With this cat? quoth Panurge; the devil scratch me if I did not think it had been a young soft-chinned devil, which, with this same stocking instead of mitten, I had snatched up in the great hutch of hell as thievishly as any sizar of Montague college could have done.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518