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Burglarious

//bɜːˈɡlɛəɹi.əs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Being or resembling a burglar

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    involving or resembling burglary wordnet

Etymology

From burglar + -ious.

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