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purloin

[ UK /pˈɜːlɔ‍ɪn/ ]
[ US /pɝˈɫɔɪn/ ]
VERB
  1. make off with belongings of others

How To Use purloin In A Sentence

  • Perhaps this dim-bulb mayor, and the MSM in fawning over Klepto Deb, are confusing pragmatist with pilferer or purloiner or maybe larcenist. Sound Politics: What does "pragmatist" mean?
  • The search for a replacement cause brought with it shallow opportunism, the honing of public relations skills and a ragbag of nostrums, some of them purloined from its political opponents.
  • Their caper involves a nightlong journey of picking up cash all over town in a purloined bank van with Wayne and Henry posing as bank guards assigned to collect all this money.
  • I was using a pen that I'd purloined from the office.
  • Keep in mind that trademarks don't trigger a siren every time someone purloins your idea.
  • Some of the e-mail messages, purloined last November, were mean-spirited, others were dismissive of contrarian views, and others revealed a timid reluctance to share data.
  • I ask, pencil poised above my personalized notepad purloined from the office.
  • That case leads Sam into investigating stolen gold coins purloined on the San Anselmo. Spade & Archer-Joe Gores « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • And she was at Balmoral, the queen's Scottish estate and purloined a few letters from Prince Charles' briefcase, sent them down to me via an intermediary.
  • Hollywood executives must assume that no one in that great country of theirs can read subtitles, so there's nothing wrong with purloining the imagination of others to present North American versions of Japanese ghost stories.
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