Now I acknowledge how falsely I had judged the poor denizens of the East when I took them for the most thievish of tribes.
Had a painter been standing on my tower, what a picture of the building might he not have drawn as the wild Arab and the thievish Bedouin leant quietly beside the peaceful priest and the curious European!
May they be ashamed to persist in a mean and thievish course of conduct, and afraid to quarrel with the workmanship of God!
A vast majority of the free blacks, as we have seen, are and must be, an idle, worthless and thievish race.
Out of consideration for Madelon he refuses to accuse Cardillac of being thethievish assassin.
A train of carts of great length was sometimes made to go upon some long expedition, or for protection from the thievish or hostile bands of Indians.
In 1852, a thievish band of coast Indians called the Chilkats plundered Fort Selkirk and shortly afterward destroyed it.
His cheek is white with envy, his brow black with jealous rage, his livid lips are full of lust, his thievish hands spotted over with the crimson drops of murder.
He could not, would not, believe her capable of ingratitude so rank; and fought fiercely, unreasoningly, against the conviction that she would have followed her thievishinstincts and made off with the booty.
But, whatever her right of heritage, she had renounced it, declassing herself by yielding to thievish instincts, voluntarily placing herself on the level of Anisty.
To bring his fair young bride to a stately mansion, he undertook the bad cause of the thievish tax-collector Pyrrhus, and cleared him.
Thus matters went on for a time, until first a beggar came, and then a Phoenician sailor, and a thievish Egyptian from the Rhakotis--neither of whom could read.
III She feigns as well with that deceitful scout; (Fitting with him the father of all lies) Watches his thievish hands in fear and doubt; And follows every motion with her eyes.
San Lucar itself was always noted for the thievish propensities of its inhabitants—the worst in all Andalusia.
There never was heard a much lustier shout, As the apples and oranges tumbled about; And the urchins, that stand with their thievish eyes Forever on watch, ran off each with a prize.
Vendale, in a terrible voice, staggering up with a last flash of fire breaking out of him, and clutching the thievish hands at his breast, in both of his.
As his murderous and thievish footfall passed out of the garden, the steps of the notary and some one accompanying him stopped at the front door of the house.
As his head dropped on his breast, and he stumbled on the brink of the chasm as before, the thievish hands went once more, quick and busy, to his breast.
He sipped his tea and munched his cookies, with his head on one side and the air of a thievish jackdaw; and proceeded, after his wont, to extract such pith as the situation offered.
Who are you that prowl about other peoples' yards like a thievish cat?
But he might as well have pressed Goetz von Berlichingen's iron hand with his thievish thumb as her warm one.
The Maghatah (or Maratah) are a thievish race, and have the vices of their mothers, those peculiar to Soudan, as well as the more ferocious traits of Berber bandits.
Dolph, as he suddenly remembered their unwelcome visitor of the earlier evening, and the suspicion they had entertained as to his thievish propensities.
He declared that the most they had to fear from Big Gabe was his thievish propensity.
In this unhappy state a considerable space of time was spent, until, for some other thievish exploits of her own, Kemp's wife was apprehended, convicted and transported.
Their first appearance, and this strong manifestation of their thievish disposition, so far from inclining us to cultivate their acquaintance any further, had given us an irresistible inclination to avoid them.
Only the "whiskey-johneesh," as Louis called the bold and thievish Canada jays, dared to cry out at the passing boats and come about the camps to watch for scraps.
Taulneere, or Talnere, a thievish road, but a fair town with a castle and river, which is not passable in the rains without a boat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thievish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
