What is a synonym for "kleptomaniac"?

Common synonyms include: fraudulent, thief, thieving.

How do you pronounce "kleptomaniac"?

Pronounced //ˌklɛptəˈmeɪniæk//.

//ˌklɛptəˈmeɪniæk// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Noun

1
One who steals compulsively.
"“A kleptomaniac,” I said. “Which means, if the term is not familiar to you, a chap who flits hither and thither pinching everything he can lay his hands on. [...] And if ever a man needed to be constantly under an eye, it's the above kleptomaniac. [...] He pinches things. Everything that isn't nailed down is grist to his mill.”"
2
someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive wordnet

"I can't believe you didn't see the kleptomaniac toad in the topiary!"

From Ancient Greek κλέπτω (kléptō, “I steal”) (from Proto-Hellenic *klépťō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *klep-) + -maniac.

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