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Sneak thief

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Noun
  1. 1
    A thief who steals without being noticed and without using violence.

    "[…] travelling gangs of Moorish artisans, heavy armed Templars on their way to the Sepulchre, wandering minstrels, sneakthieves, bawds, rowdy strings of knights and foot-soldiers setting out with wine-skins at their saddlebows to cross the passes towards the debatable lands of Extremadura, […]"

  2. 2
    a thief who steals without using violence wordnet

Etymology

From sneak + thief. Compare Danish snigtyv (literally “sneak thief”).

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