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单词 thievishness
例句 thievishness
The following circumstance was mentioned as a specimen of the manner in which these singular heretics endeavour to rid themselves of the imputation of thievishness universally cast upon them. The City of the Mormons or, Three Days at Nauvoo, in 1842 2011-06-23T02:00:26.503Z
I saw few ebullitions of temper, much hospitality among the poor, no downright thievishness, but the irresistible tendency to pass bad money—which is accounted a venial failing in the Peninsula. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z
Their universal bad character, therefore, for fickleness, infidelity, ingratitude, revenge, malice, rage, depravity, laziness, knavery, thievishness, and cunning, though not deficient in capacity and cleverness, renders them people of no use in society.  Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement
In a little time after others came and played the same game, only adding to their abominable thievishness by driving off our mules and all our cattle. Plantation Sketches
Although I have promised not to bring your thievishness to judgment, yet we can never deal with you again. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag
So too the habitual thievishness of the highlanders is pressed upon us quite as vividly as their gallantry and superstitions. Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)
The first land seen was the little group of islands called Ladrones from the thievishness of the inhabitants, and a short stay was made at Guam. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55 1493-1529 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
There they met the same experience as the Spaniards from the thievishness of the natives. History of the Philippine Islands
He feared that, do what he might, they would not escape the inquisitive thievishness of the parrots, whose strong beaks could easily cut leather; but he could do nothing more.  Erewhon Revisited
The final drink-offering should have been made to Jove or Neptune, not to the god of thievishness and rascality of all kinds. The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
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