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Example sentences for: thief

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Raves for this biopic of infamous Irish thief Martin Cahill ("The General"): It "belongs on a long list of history's best gangster movies" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). John Boorman won Best Director at Cannes for the film.
gun moll a double clipping of gonif's Molly, Yiddish for `thief's girl.
F&H also defines gun as a `thief.
The latest from avant-garde British director Peter Greenaway ( The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover ) elicits a familiar critique: It's judged a visual knockout but pretentious as hell.
If you think that the practice in some Muslim countries of amputating the hand of a thief is harsh, beware of participating in horse shows in England, where there is no capital punishment but the issue arises every few years: