Synonyms for thief
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1. thief

   A robber seeks to obtain the property of others by force or intimidation; a thief by stealth and secrecy. In early English thief was freely used in both senses, as in Shakespeare and the Authorized Version of the English Bible, which has "two thieves" (Matt. xxvii, 38), where the Revised Version more correctly substitutes "two robbers."

   Synonyms:
   bandit, brigand, buccaneer, burglar, depredator, despoiler, footpad, forager, freebooter, highwayman, marauder, pillager, pirate, plunderer, raider, robber

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1. thief, stealernoun

   a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

   Synonyms:
   stealer

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1. • Criminal

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1. radier

   a raider

   the thief got away

   Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

2. villan

   a bad person that steals other peoples things

   "a thief stole my purse"

   Submitted by JP03 on October 27, 2014  

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1. thiefnoun

   Synonyms:
   pickpocket, shop-lifter, pilferer, cutpurse, petty robber

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1. thiefnoun

   Synonyms:
   robber, pilferer, filcher, peculator, embezzler, defaulter, peculator, plagiarist, poacher, shoplifter, kleptomaniac

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1. List of paraphrases for "thief":

   robber, -thief, burglar, ganef, crook, bandit, perp, mugger, thieving

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1. Proverb:

   The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief. #ReasonbehindApology

2. RAS CARDO REGGAE:

   **(c)(p) I COULD NEVER BOAST THE ABUNDANCE OF WEALTH BECAUSE I HELP THOSE IN THE POVERTY FROM WHICH I GREW WITH THE LITTLE RESOURCES WHICH I WORKED FOR. I DO NOT NEED THE SPOTLIGHT TO SHOW WHAT I SHARE. THOSE WHO ASKED BOB MARLEY ABOUT MONEY GOT ONE STRAIGHT ANSWER-WHAT IS MONEY TO YOU?. HE TURNED THE QUESTION BACK AT THEM. I TAUGHT HIM THAT IN TRENCH TOWN.WE NEVER STOLE FROM ANYONE! POVERTY DOES NOT TURN YOU INTO A THIEF! GREED AND ENVY DOES THAT! I AM RAS CARDO.

3. Jitendra Singh:

   When Jitendra Singh said,' I'm hungry and that's why I'm stealing,' I said OK, Jitendra Singh has some genuine problem. Jitendra Singh's not a thief who's going and stealing stuff and selling it.

4. Proverb:

   Thief who steals thief has one hundred years of pardon.

5. John Fetterman:

   A woman walks past me and stops and looks at me, and then says,' Ugh, there's that n-word that John Fetterman married. And, she said you don't belong here, and she called me a thief, and uttered some other ramblings. And,( she) kept walking, went to the other aisle, came back, said a few more things.