Synonyms for stealing
steal·ing

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1. larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealingnoun

   the act of taking something from someone unlawfully

   "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International"

   Synonyms:
   thievery, larceny, thieving, stealth, theft

2. stealth, stealingnoun

   avoiding detection by moving carefully

   Synonyms:
   thievery, thieving, larceny, stealth, theft

Matched Categories

1. • Concealment

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1. embezzling

   take (another person's property) without permission or legal right and without intending to return it.

   thieves stole her bicycle.

   Submitted by JP03 on October 7, 2015  

2. robbing

   to rob or take something off somebody or something

   she was caught stealing food at the la county fair last week.

   Submitted by Artemis on June 28, 2017  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stealingnoun

   Synonyms:
   theft, robbery, larceny

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stealingnoun

   Synonyms:
   theft, larceny, robbery, pilfering, peculation, thievery, abstraction, looting, cribbing, rapine, depredation, surreption, piracy, plundering, pillage, embezzlement, peculation, shop lifting, plagiarism

   Associated words:
   light-fingered, booty, spoil, plunder, loot, swag, spoils, predatory, fence, kleptomania

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "stealing":

   steal, fly, theft, vol, flying, robbing, rob, flight, robbery, stolen

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How to use stealing in a sentence?

1. Austin Gary:

   They're not going to keep stealing because we upped the security devices, we're a family business. The community has been very supportive for us and we believe that we're going to fight back. Not like they fight. We're going to fight back just by looking out for one another, being there for one another, and it's going to come to a stop. It's going to come to a stop.

2. Greta Thunberg:

   You say you love your children above all else and yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.

3. Piercamillo Davigo:

   The politicians haven't stopped stealing, they've stopped being ashamed of it, now they blatantly claim a right to do what they used to do secretly.

4. Marquis de Sade:

   It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.

5. Carly Fiorina:

   I have been doing business in China for decades, they are not terribly imaginative. They're not entrepreneurial, they don't innovate. That is why they are stealing our intellectual property.