THIEF Synonyms

• an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band

• a thief who enters a building with intent to steal

• someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

• bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

• guilty of crime or serious offense

• involving or being or having the nature of a crime

• someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

• a circular segment of a curve

• a long staff with one end being hook shaped

• bend or cause to bend

• someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

• someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

• a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it

• a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house

• a wrecker of houses

• someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive

• someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

• a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places

• a thief who steals without using violence

• someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

• someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

• a ship that is manned by pirates

• copy illegally; of published material

• take arbitrarily or by force

• someone who hunts or fishes illegally on the property of another

• a cooking vessel designed to poach food (such as fish or eggs)

• small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters

• a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

• one who is playfully mischievous

• a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence

• a thief who steals goods that are in a store

• a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

• A device designed to pick locks.

• One who picks locks; a thief.