| 单词 | kleptomania |
| 例句 | Bunny had had a mild tendency towards kleptomania, and was apt to pocket any small, valueless articles that caught his eye—nail clippers, buttons, spools of tape. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The kleptomania reached its final shameful heights when we visited a small family-run honey farm on our last day. Unhappy Valentines: romantic holiday disasters 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Mark Twain made charred hash of the fact that when poor people steal, they are tossed in jail, while their social betters are diagnosed with “kleptomania” and gently sent for treatment. Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z His compulsive lying is an addictive habit like kleptomania; it forces him to live in a growing web of relationships based on bad faith, from which more scams will be needed to escape. Film review: I Love You, Phillip Morris 2010-03-18T22:00:00Z Though Freud was generally mute on the subject of kleptomania, Wilhelm Stekel, one of his followers, wrote extensively on the subject. Kleptomania and a mother’s love: The five-finger discount is my personal rebellion against inequality 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The play takes the time to introduce their respective demons — alcoholism, kleptomania and violence, among them — then moves on with little resolution. Rainbow Theatre Project’s ‘Blue Camp’ is a well-intentioned misfire 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z Even today, in the current DSM, Trich is listed alongside impulse control disorders that land people in jail: kleptomania, pyromania and pathological gambling. My secret hair pulling 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z In the first part, he writes, “I’m not going to come out of the whole thing smelling of roses,” before detailing the rampant kleptomania of his late teens and his sex addictions. ‘Pistol’ Tells Steve Jones’s Story. With a Touch of Showbiz. 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z She lost several jobs over greedy business negotiations for perks, and even had bouts of kleptomania. New Stritch bio reveals vulnerability behind the moxy 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The judge said a diagnosis of kleptomania is not “a license to steal.” Woman gets a day in jail for stealing from boss 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Previously, it was categorized alongside impulse-control disorders, such as kleptomania and compulsive shopping. As states chase sports betting gold, addicts left in the cold 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z At the time, the Gillette College student told officers she was working on a paper on the emotions people with kleptomania experience. Woman gets probation in Wyoming shoplifting case 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z And some feel punishment for minor property offenses is insufficient to break shoplifters of their kleptomania impulses before they become a habit. Alaska editorials 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Domestically, Putin’s “managed democracy” is Stalinism leavened by kleptomania, as in the looting of the energy giant Yukos. Putin goes full Orwell 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z Unless something goes haywire in the workforce – an outbreak of kleptomania, say, or plummeting productivity – the company has little reason to tweak the filtering model. How algorithms rule our working lives | Cathy O’Neil 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z This kind of kleptomania is common in professional basketball. The Most-Stolen Move in the NBA 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Here are three more worthy of debate in rank order of kleptomania degrees, worst first. Does The Advertising Business Have A Kleptomania Problem? 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Indeed, psychiatry used to put heroin and gambling in different categories, the latter lumped in with impulse control disorders such as pyromania and kleptomania. Smartphone addiction? It’s hard to diagnose. There’s the most extreme, “It’s my God-given right to exchange information” argument, which is just arrogance tinged with kleptomania. Whatever Your Numbers, Piracy Hurts 2012-01-23T21:27:20Z Among these morbid tricks kleptomania has an interest of its own, on account of the frequent doubt whether it is not put forward as a mere excuse for pilfering. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z If they are not forthcoming, I shall have to explain what has become of them, and those are not the men to listen to any talk of kleptomania. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z Special names are given to these acts, according to their character, as “kleptomania, an impulse that prompts to steal”; or “pyromania, love of setting things on fire”; or “homicidal mania, an intense desire to kill.” How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses 2011-08-22T02:00:55.510Z In some cases, perhaps, he may show homicidal mania or kleptomania, or some of the other manias which physicians have discovered in late years. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Another periodical insanity is kleptomania, in which insane stealing occurs at intervals of greater or lesser regularity. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z For the time at least I also dismissed all theories of kleptomania. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z Nobody need know; and, if they should, kleptomania is quite genteel.' A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z The awful impulse of kleptomania alone seemed to explain but scarcely palliate his first offence against society. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Sasha, when we first meet her, is 35, living in Manhattan and suffering from a bout of kleptomania. Author Jennifer Egan Does the Time Warp -- Again 2010-06-17T19:55:00Z Oh, come on, don’t let this military kleptomania get to you, my friend! 2009-12-28T05:00:00Z Some of his admirers have deplored this tendency in Stevenson; have shaken their heads gloomily over his Scottish ancestry, and spoken as apologetically about the moralizing as if it had been kleptomania. The Vagabond in Literature Another fancied it was a question of kleptomania or "something really weird." The Brightener It may be kleptomania,—God knows; but whatever it is, she threw off all disguise. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. He resembles the English Magpie in general appearance, but has not the long tail of that bird, though he shares with him his kleptomania. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Neurasthenia, stammering, aversions, kleptomania, certain cases of paralysis, are nothing but the result of unconscious autosuggestion, that is to say the result of the action of the unconscious upon the physical and moral being. Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion The victim of kleptomania will steal any and everything; they are like magpies in this respect. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire So perhaps Mary Winchester’s brother was expelled from college for kleptomania.” Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls “Sudden temptation; kleptomania and that sort of thing.” The Dark House A Knot Unravelled Her mother, his wife, he said, an excellent, kind-hearted, conscientious, truthful woman, had occasionally manifested the kleptomania impulse and had been detected. Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. This tendency may take extreme forms, as in the case of miserliness or kleptomania. Human Traits and their Social Significance When I got this hoe, I was troubled with sleepless mornings, pains in the back, kleptomania with regard to new weeders; when I went into my garden I was always sure to see something. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I I recollect how there used to be a regular little joke at her expense on the subject of kleptomania. She and I, Volume 1 Other cases of kleptomania could easily be cited. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use Definition.—Like many another I dislike the term “kleptomania” and would much prefer the term “pathological stealing” to denote the condition under consideration. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry And with the victims of kleptomania, dipsomania, and other moral manias, it is well known that a sound whipping will often stop the nuisance. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence "No doubt a sudden impulse of senescent kleptomania," said the superintendent, sagely, when he had noted down for transference to headquarters Madame Dépine's verbose and vociferous description of the traits and garments of the runagate. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes And, in order to destroy the ready market this wide-spread kleptomania found, an Act was passed making it a misdemeanor for a free person to purchase any article from slaves. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens But I have succeeded; I have drawn you back from kleptomania to your own clear moral strength. The Bells of San Juan He is as yet not ready to agree that some sex difficulty is the only conflict back of kleptomania. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry When statesmen steal it's called diplomacy, when the rich steal it's called kleptomania or business, and it's only when the poor steal that stealing is termed theft. The Sorcery Club The joyous conquest over that "erotic kleptomania," as Ellen Key has well said, reveals the blossoming of a fine civilization. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Pregnant women appear seldom to long for the possession of objects outside the edible class, and it seems doubtful whether they have any special tendency to kleptomania. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Next, I will give an example of kleptomania. Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink "Your lordship knows what kleptomania is?" said a counsel who was defending a thief. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Associated words: light-fingered, booty, spoil, plunder, loot, swag, spoils, predatory, fence, kleptomania. stealthy, a. clandestine, sly, secret, furtive, skulking, underhand. steam, n. vapor, reek, fume, emanation, effluvium, exhalation, stufa. steam organ. calliope. steel, n. Putnam's Word Book Poor collectors, on the other hand, have at times forgotten where enterprise ends and kleptomania begins. The Collectors Another rival of Beethoven's in public esteem was Daniel Steibelt, forgotten as a virtuoso, but not to be forgotten for his splendid vices which range from kleptomania up, or down as you wish. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 A euphemism of kleptomania had been offered and accepted as sufficient excuse for her crime. Within the Law Kleptophobia, examples of which have been cited by Cullere, is the fear of stealing objects in view, and is often the prelude of kleptomania. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The word "kleptomania" is a vulgar example of what I mean. Heretics "Then," resumed Roger, who had evidently been pondering what Lady Bernard had previously said, "you would consider what is called kleptomania as the impulse to steal transmitted by a thief-ancestor?" The Vicar's Daughter It is a peculiarity of kleptomania, as you are no doubt aware, that the subject is unable to differentiate between the intrinsic values of objects. A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories If I laid down my handkerchief, my pencil, or any other object, the wife immediately locked them up to protect them from the kleptomania of her servants. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes A kleptomania, uncontrollable desire to steal, confined to the duration of pregnancy alone, has been described. The Glands Regulating Personality Did he know of any victim of kleptomania in the School? The Pothunters Is it not hard that the privileges of kleptomania should be confined to the rich? The Vicar's Daughter In these days, too, if a person of good family and high social standing steals anything, they call it kleptomania, and send him to the lunatic asylum. Sketches New and Old, Part 4. Kitty is suffering from a form of vertigo, an insanity, kleptomania, the real thing. Constance Dunlap Yet kleptomania does exist, and it is easy to make it seem like crime when it is really persistent, incorrigible, and irrational stealing. The Dream Doctor Most murder," he had said, "is a variation of homicidal mania, and in the same way most theft is a version of kleptomania. Manalive "I have sometimes wondered whether kleptomania was not merely the fashionable name for stealing." The Vicar's Daughter Now there is cruelty in public schools, just as there is kleptomania and secret drinking and vices without a name. What's Wrong with the World Such terms as kleptomania," went on Constance, "are often regarded as excuses framed up by the experts to cover up plain ordinary stealing. Constance Dunlap One must take into consideration many things, for such diseases as kleptomania belong exclusively to civilisation; they are the product of an age of sensationalism. The Dream Doctor From his late schooldays onward he had been possessed by an acute and obstinate form of kleptomania; he had the acquisitive instinct of the collector without any of the collector’s discrimination. The Toys of Peace, and other papers Its exercise would probably be classed with kleptomania and other like excesses of purely personal consideration. The Soul of the Far East |
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