2. A thief.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To cheapen.
Stealing Roget’s Thesaurus §791
N. stealing, theft, thievery, latrociny|, # direption, abstraction, appropriation, plagiary, plagiarism, autoplagiarism, latrocinium, spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack, sackage, rapine, brigandage, foray, razzia, rape, depredation, raid, blackmail, piracy, privateering, buccaneering, license to plunder, letters of marque, letters of mark and reprisal, filibustering, filibusterism, burglary, housebreaking, badger game*, robbery, highway robbery, hold-up*, mugging, peculation, embezzlement, fraud, larceny, petty larceny, grand larceny, shoplifting, thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, alsatia, den of cacus, den of thieves, blackmail, extortion, shakedown, black hand, thief
V. steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim|, crib, cabbage, palm, abstract, appropriate, plagiarize, convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp, make off with, walk off with, run off with, run away with, spirit away, seize, plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer|, maraud, lift cattle, poach, smuggle, run, badger*, bail up, hold up, stick up, bunco, bunko, filibuster, swindle, peculate, embezzle, sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon, fleece, defraud, obtain under false pretenses, live by one's wits, rob peter to pay paul, borrow of peter to pay paul, set a thief to catch a thief, disregard the distinction between meum and tuum, fence, launder, launder money
Adj. thieving, thievish, light-fingered, furacious, furtive, piratical, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, raptorial, stolen
Phr. sic vos non vobis
Affectation Roget’s Thesaurus §855
N. affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense, (ostentation) 882, boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism, stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan
V. affect, act a part, put on, give oneself airs, boast, coquet, simper, mince, attitudinize, pose, flirt a fan, overact, overdo
Adj. affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental
Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works"
Blusterer Roget’s Thesaurus §887
N. blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler, fanfaron, braggart, bully, terrorist, rough, bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan*, larrikin, roarer*, mohock, mohawk, drawcansir, swashbuckler, captain bobadil, sir lucius o'trigger, thraso, pistol, parolles, bombastes furioso, hector, chrononhotonthologos, jingo, desperado, dare-devil, fire eater, fury, &c. (violent person) 173, rowdy, slang-whanger*, tough, puppy, prig, sir oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack- in-office, saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx, bantam-cock, 1, social affections
No Bible verses found for "prig".