thiefy

comparative more thiefy · superlative most thiefy

1. informalLike a thief; thievish; thieving

   A sullen, thiefy edginess crept over Ardreagh.

   2000, Fred Johnston, Atalanta, page 162

   2 more examples

   This makes for some pretty funny business, and so does a scene showing the fence stepping forth from a church, where he has presumably been casting a thiefy eye at the sacred vessels, and talking briskly to a henchman about the paint job he wants done on one of his hot commodities.

   1949, The New Yorker, volume 25, page 52

   He picked up the last of the pieces and studied it. It depicted a shadowy figure, crouched and masked. Very thiefy, he noted with a smile. “What about this one? How does it move, and what does it do?”

   2017, Carrie Ryan, John Parke Davis, Shadows of the Lost Sun

   Synonyms: thieflike, thiefly