pilfer
mencopet
definition
verb
The bad guys steal your mail or pilfer your trash, coming up with enough personal information to apply for bank accounts, credit cards and loans with your name and credit rating but with their address.
steal (typically things of relatively little value).
example
After all, these nightly visitors aren't there to snitch snapdragons or 'pilfer' peas.
Fights were sometimes orchestrated under false pretences, so that inmates could swipe and 'pilfer' a target person's store items.
Frankly, with a vast online knowledge base at your fingertips, it would be a miracle if people didn't swipe a phrase here or 'pilfer' a juicy paragraph there.
The bad guys steal your mail or 'pilfer' your trash, coming up with enough personal information to apply for bank accounts, credit cards and loans with your name and credit rating but with their address.
she produced the handful of coins she had managed to 'pilfer'
Ahmad manages to 'pilfer' a box of medicine, but it's not enough.
If there is any discrepancy there could be urgent grounds for our Integrity Commission to act in order to determine who is 'pilfering' the public purse and to take appropriate action.
It was still early morning when Skipper and Dodger returned with the camels to find other Warlpiri 'pilfering' the last of the supplies and other useful items.
The 'pilferers' brushed off the warning and proceeded to remove the loot they came for: the security system!
Then he discovered that some of those hires were fleecing the business - through a combination of 'pilferage' and outright theft that added up to tens of thousands of dollars.
In fact, seeing a man 'pilfering' food will tell you nothing about the causes of poverty, just as (so Brecht remarked) putting a factory on stage will tell you nothing about capitalism.
He kept law and order by giving the 'pilferer' a clip round the ear.
Moving on to talk about that ex-Marine, former White House staffer, rookie FBI analyst, 'pilferer' of classified computer files.
Masses of all kinds of 'pilferers' and robbers with spades and shovels in their hands were there digging and searching and raking and straining the sand.
Wedding and death ceremonies have 'pilfered' their terminology from The Book of Common Prayer.
Earlier, they were satisfied with getting access to the car and taking away the stereos, or 'pilfering' anything kept inside.
When you make a cash donation, ‘you expose yourself to 'pilferage' , loss and theft,’ Weiner says.
This project was aimed at identifying leakages which would reduce both water 'pilferage' and contamination.
Scotland's places of worship - tired of light-fingered visitors 'pilfering' everything from candles to crosses - have hit upon an ingenious way of enforcing the eighth commandment.
Instead, most property is owned provisionally or even illegally, which means that large numbers of people live off the grid, escaping taxes and 'pilfering' their utilities.
An ingenious scheme has seen 'pilfering' attendants fired, to be replaced by deaf-and-dumb individuals recruited through their national association for the equivalent of £2 a match.
On board two passengers have just proposed marriage while the rest are now busy 'pilfering' the safety instruction cards.
Employers justify surveillance practices by claiming that they ensure increased productivity, and reduce theft and 'pilferage' in the workplace.
A trusted church warden has been jailed for a year after he was caught 'pilfering' tens of thousands of pounds from a village charity fund.
This is especially true if we consider how various forms of 'pilferage' , theft, and minor fraud relate to the way different kinds of work are organized and the occupational socialization that people experience.
The essence of democracy - our power to control the decisions that affect us - has steadily been 'pilfered' by corporate kleptocrats.
It's also because it has the clearest and least ridiculous plotline of the films - essentially because it 'pilfers' such reliable stories as the King Arthur legends, The Wizard of Oz and WWII aviation flicks, among others.
Indeed, the 'pilferers' might legitimately claim that they were recovering wealth that had previously been taken from them in the form of taxation.
He says it was easy - not because he was a master thief but because 'pilfering' jeans was the last thing anyone expected a young, middle-class white dude to do.
Jiji nearly steals the show and definitely 'pilfers' a few scenes.
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