I have received personal information, from a very high quarter, that a certain document of the last importance, has been purloined from the royal apartments.
Source: tatoeba (711210)
Purloined
Synonyms for "purloined" (2 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (1)
Related words (1)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
He married Beryl Garçia, one of the beauties of Costa Rica, and, having purloined a considerable sum of public money, he changed his name to Vandeleur and fled to England, where he established a school in the east of Yorkshire.
Source: tatoeba (6620785)
He had no original ideas of his own - everything was purloined from other writers.
Source: tatoeba (7255457)
She had a collection of luxurious towels purloined from the world's finest hotels.
Source: tatoeba (7255465)
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.