burglarious

comparative more burglarious · superlative most burglarious

1. Being or resembling a burglar

   One evening I was sitting at dinner in a fashionable street in New York, close to Central Park, when I was startled by a distinctly burglarious noise at the window.

   1899, William Archer, America To-day, Observations and Reflections

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   At nine o'clock on such a morning, the place of business of Pubsey and Co. was not the liveliest object even in Saint Mary Axe--which is not a very lively spot--with a sobbing gaslight in the counting-house window, and a burglarious stream of fog creeping in to strangle it through the keyhole of the main door.

   1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

   He felt what a great advantage it was to be forewarned of the impending danger, since being forewarned was forearmed, as with the help of the police he could prepare for his burglarious visitors.

   1872, Horatio Alger, Slow and Sure

   Of the various burglarious proceedings he had heard of picking the trolls’ pockets seemed the least difficult, so at last he crept behind a tree just behind William.

   1937, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit