Thievish
- a. Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest; as, a thievish practice.
- a. Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.
- a. Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.