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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb thieve which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

thievish
  1. Having a tendency to steal.
  2. Having the manner of a thief; furtive; stealthy.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. dishonest, crooked, larcenous, thieving, pilfering, sly, predatory, rapacious, furtive, cunning, fraudulent, kleptomaniacal, piratic, plunderous, secretive, spoliative, stealthy, light-fingered, sticky-fingered, bent, kleptic, theftuous, criminal, crafty, underhand, shifty, shoplifting, pocket-picking, nimble-fingered … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “There is a thievish nature more hateful than even the biblioklept.”
      “Are you talking about the thievish doings of organized crime, all those gangs we keep hearing about?”
      “Nor did we turn out noticeably more thievish, drug-addled, or unmotivated than nice suburban kids.”
theftuous
  1. Of the nature of theft; thievish.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. thieving, dishonest, crooked, larcenous, pilfering, thievish, sly, furtive, bent, predatory, rapacious, cunning, fraudulent, kleptomaniacal, piratic, plunderous, secretive, spoliative, stealthy, criminal, kleptic, light-fingered, sticky-fingered … more
thiefly
  1. (obsolete) Like a thief; thievish.
thieving
  1. That thieves; that steals.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dishonest, crooked, larcenous, pilfering, thievish, sly, furtive, bent, predatory, rapacious, cunning, fraudulent, kleptomaniacal, piratic, plunderous, secretive, spoliative, stealthy, criminal, kleptic, theftuous, light-fingered, sticky-fingered, crafty, underhand, shifty, shoplifting, pocket-picking, nimble-fingered … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “My Mother always talked about them and their nests as if a caravan of thieving gypsies had set up camp in the back yard.”
thieflike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a thief.
thiefproof
  1. secure against thieves
thefteous
  1. Alternative form of theftuous
thiefless
  1. Without thieves.
theftless
  1. Without theft.
thieved
  1. simple past tense and past participle of thieve
  2. Synonyms:
      3. stole, stolen, looted, pilfered, purloined, misappropriated, swiped, burgled, filched, heisted, lifted, lift, nicked, pinched, poached, pocketed, raided, robbed, snitched, abstracted, appropriated, embezzled, glommed, hooked, nabbed, snaffled, blagged, cribbed, liberated, nipped, nobbled, plundered, shoplifted, swindled, took, taken, whipped, boosted, cabbaged, defalcated, scrumped, snavelled, souvenired, trousered, boned, peculated, walked, absconded with, carried off, knocked off … more
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