Given to larceny, tending to thievery.
Used in a Sentence
larcenous
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for larcenous.
Editorial note
People being larcenous, it needs both a carrot AND a stick to make it work.
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Definitions2
Parts of speech1
Quick take
Given to larceny, tending to thievery.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of larcenous gathered in one view.
Resembling theft, often applied to legal actions that seem unfair.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for larcenous.
adjective
Given to larceny, tending to thievery.
adjective
Resembling theft, often applied to legal actions that seem unfair.
Example sentences
People being larcenous, it needs both a carrot AND a stick to make it work.
Grifting is always a form of aberrant behaviour -- manipulative, cruel, deceitful, larcenous.
They’d rather retain a larcenous pig who barely executes her duties than have to go back and scrape the barrel for a replacement.
On the whole, as a group, Roma are violent, larcenous and fraudulent.
Whenever I find an ~iTouch/Android (Zii EGG!) portable that does what I want over WiFi I'll happily avoid larcenous SMS fees.
There’s a distinction to be made between a small customary bribe to an seriously underpaid state employee, and a larcenous bribe to a high official.
The larcenous criminals should be the ones to pay back the overdraft fees that were the direct result of their larceny of 4 figure dollar amounts stolen from their accounts.
> a distinction to be made between a small customary bribe to an seriously underpaid state employee, and a larcenous bribe to a high official Not really.
I think it might be useful as an object lesson in security, drop a few outside your business, some larcenous genius plugs it in, blammo, magic smoke.
But writers are notoriously bad at business, which is why mainstream publishing contracts have gotten away with being so larcenous and exploitative for so long, and why it's been so hard to make a living out of fiction unless you top the best-seller lists.
Not always mind you, some particularly unscrupulous businesses can become joined at the hip with the state and feed from the same larcenous trough, but at that stage it's hard to actually distinguish where they end and the state begins, thus your normal actions to avoid support to the state hit this particular shambling hybrid just as hard.
It's not that Oakland is crazy violent, it's just that the a lot of the most violent areas of the metro fall in its borders, it's not that SF has the most vagrant or larcenous population, it's that it has a good climate for it: lots of the soft targets and toothless police force.
Quote examples
The scabrous larcenous fucks who want to take over the internet with "web3" might likely succeed because the investor class is filled with rapacious sociopaths and grifters who will happily ally themselves for another quick buck.
Proper noun examples
Larcenous provenances are very common when dealing in antiquities.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use larcenous in a sentence?
People being larcenous, it needs both a carrot AND a stick to make it work.
What does larcenous mean?
Given to larceny, tending to thievery.
What part of speech is larcenous?
larcenous is commonly used as adjective.