Crossword-Solution: ROBBERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Robbery | n. | The act or practice of robbing; theft. |
| Robbery | n. | The crime of robbing. See Rob, v. t., 2. |
We have 35 clues for the answer “ROBBERY”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Bank, daylight or highway | 1 answer |
| stealing of property from a person by using or threatening to use force | 1 answer |
| larceny by threat of violence | 1 answer |
| action of taking property | 1 answer |
| What a fair exchange isn't | 1 answer |
| Unlawful acquisition | 1 answer |
| Theft, stealing | 1 answer |
| Taking things badly? | 1 answer |
| Serious overcharging | 1 answer |
| Highway event? | 1 answer |
| Bank holdup, for example | 1 answer |
| "The Great Train ___" (Crichton novel and film) | 1 answer |
| A felony | 2 answers |
| Property crime | 4 answers |
| Holdup | 7 answers |
| rapine | 7 answers |
| Heist | 8 answers |
| Bank job | 8 answers |
| looting | 8 answers |
| piracy | 9 answers |
| Larceny | 12 answers |
| Highway | 25 answers |
| Booty | 29 answers |
| ACQUIRING dishonestly | 47 answers |
| Shell game? | 53 answers |
| CONFIDENCE game | 54 answers |
| ARMED ___ | 55 answers |
| Job | 69 answers |
| foulness | 69 answers |
| theft | 71 answers |
| stealing | 72 answers |
| Offence | 73 answers |
| ASSAULT ___ | 75 answers |
| Crime __ | 75 answers |
| Fraud | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ROBBERY (5)
Here we have religion and robbery the allies of each other—devils dressed in angels’ robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise.
The shutters were not closed, nor was any blind or curtain drawn over the window, neither robbery nor observation being a contingency which could do much injury to the occupant of the domicile.
But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer.
His desk and private drawers, in a room contiguous to his bedchamber, had been ransacked; money and valuable articles were missing; there was a bloody hand-print on the old man’s linen; and, by a powerfully welded chain of deductive evidence, the guilt of the robbery and apparent murder had been fixed on Clifford, then residing with his uncle in the House of the Seven Gables.
Then Scott admitted that he had been in on a bank robbery, or at least breaking and entering a bank's computer.
Quotes with ROBBERY (3)
The people come to understand that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organised, protected robbery. Rich people are no longer respectable people; they are nothing more than flesh eating animals, jackals and vultures which wallow in the people's blood.
After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.
Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it’s obligatory to speak plain and true about the conclusions I've come to; now that I have been educated to believe by such mentors as Wells, Stapledon, Heinlein, van Vogt, Clarke, Pohl, (S. Fowler) Wright, Orwell, Taine, Temple, Gernsback, Campbell and other seminal influences in scienti…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1976–2021).