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51stealing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Taking dishonestly Nouns 1. stealing, theft, thievery, robbery; abduction, kidnapping; abstraction, appropriation; plagiarism; rape, depredation, poaching, raid; spoliation, plunder, pillage, sack,… …
52tramp — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. traveler, vagabond, hobo, vagrant, bum, panhandler; jaunt, journey, hike, freighter; tread, walk, stroll; slang, prostitute. See populace, impurity. v. i. walk, tread, step, plod, trudge, travel,… …
53robber — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. thief, burglar, housebreaker, pickpocket, mugger, shoplifter, cheat, crook*, bandit, holdup man, cat burglar, second story worker, sneak thief, bank robber, swindler, embezzler, peculator, pilferer, kleptomaniac, looter,… …
54burglar — noun the burglar escaped through the bedroom window Syn: robber, housebreaker, cat burglar, thief, raider, looter, safecracker, intruder, prowler; informal second story man, yegg …
55robber — noun the robbers fled the scene in a blue Camaro Syn: burglar, thief, housebreaker, mugger, shoplifter, purse snatcher; stealer, pilferer, raider, looter, plunderer, pillager; bandit; pirate; informal crook, yegg, second story man; literary… …
56bandit — n 1. brigand, highwayman, footpad, road agent, Sl. yegg or yeggman, Sp. bandolero, Southwest U.S. ladrone, Australian. bushranger, desperado, picaroon; outlaw, gangster, public enemy, criminal, mafioso, mobster, racketeer; thug, ruffian, rogue,… …
57brigand — n 1. outlaw, gangster, criminal, mafioso; thug, ruffian, Inf. mugger, hoodlum, Sl. hood, Australian Sl. larrikin; rogue, picaro, (in India and Burma) dacoit; highwayman, footpad, Sl. yegg or yeggman, bandit, bravo, Sp. bandolero, Southwest U.S.… …
58burglar — n 1. housebreaker, Brit. picklock, Raffles, sneak thief, cat burglar, Inf. second story man; Inf. hold up man, Sl. stick up man, mugger; safecracker, Jimmy Valentine; robber, thief, stealer, Inf. crook, Sl. yegg; felon, gangster, criminal. 2.… …
59depredator — n 1. pillager, plunderer, marauder, despoiler, ransacker, sacker, rifler, looter, forager, raider; ravager, destroyer. 2. pirate, rover, viking, corsair, buccaneer, privateer; freebooter, rapparee, (in the Scottish Highlands) cateran; kidnapper,… …
60desperado — n 1. terrorist, gunman, gangster, criminal, mafioso, (in Paris) apache; thug, tough, mugger, ruffian, rowdy, hoodlum, Sl. hood, Inf. goon, hooligan, Inf. roughneck, Inf. baddy, Australian Sl. larrikin, Brit. Hist.Mohock. 2. highwayman, footpad,… …
