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Crossword-Solution: THIEF 5 letters, 173 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Thief n. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
Thief n. A waster in the snuff of a candle.

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THIEF anagram HEFTI, IFTHE

We have 173 clues for the answer “THIEF”

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"Oliver Twist" occupation 1 answer
"The Book __": Markus Zusak novel 1 answer
"To Catch a __" (Hitchcock film) 1 answer
"Yolanda and the __" (Astaire film) 1 answer
1981 James Caan film 1 answer
One who steals secretly 1 answer
Artful Dodger, for one 1 answer
Baghdad notable 1 answer
Chop shop supplier 1 answer
Crime film character 1 answer
Dickens's Fagin, e.g. 1 answer
Doberman pincher? 1 answer
Fagin, notably 1 answer
Felonious Our Lady Peace song 1 answer
Fence user 1 answer
Fence user, perhaps 1 answer
Fence's supplier 1 answer
Five-finger discount taker 1 answer
He has sticky fingers 1 answer
He has taking ways 1 answer
Larcener 1 answer
Larcenous one 1 answer
Lift operator? 1 answer
Moll Flanders, e.g. 1 answer
One available for the taking? 1 answer
Burglar or pickpocket, for example 1 answer
One in a metaphorical web 1 answer
One in need of a fence, perhaps 1 answer
One of a fabled 40 1 answer
One ordered to stop? 1 answer
One taking stock? 1 answer
One taking things badly? 1 answer
One taking things wrong? 1 answer
One who might take the cake 1 answer
One who steals 1 answer
One who takes it the wrong way? 1 answer
One who takes things wrongly? 1 answer
One with sticky fingers 1 answer
Our Lady Peace song that steals? 1 answer
Peculator 1 answer
Person who takes things the wrong way 1 answer
Person who uses the "five-finger discount" 1 answer
Person with "sticky fingers" 1 answer
Pickpocket or porch pirate 1 answer
Pickpocket, e.g. 1 answer
Pickpocket, for one 1 answer
Porch pirate, e.g. 1 answer
Porch pirate, for one 1 answer
Purse snatcher 1 answer
Ray Milland's role. 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Unscramble THIEF5-letter words that start with T5-letter words that end in F5-letter words containing HI5-letter words containing EF5-letter words with T and H

Sentences with THIEF (5)

Once, when all the maize was planted, Hiawatha, wise and thoughtful, Spake and said to Minnehaha, To his wife, the Laughing Water: “You shall bless to-night the cornfields, Draw a magic circle round them, To protect them from destruction, Blast of mildew, blight of insect, Wagemin, the thief of cornfields, Paimosaid, who steals the maize-ear.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only discover the thief who had stolen the Calf, he would offer a lamb in sacrifice to Hermes, Pan, and the Guardian Deities of the forest.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
The Route came from Government like a thief in the night, as is his nature to, and afore the Eleventh knew it almost, they were on the march.” Gabriel had listened with interest.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Whether he appeared in news articles, editorials, cartoons, or works of fiction, he was universally portrayed as superstitious, stupid, lazy, happy-go-lucky, a liar, a thief, and a drunkard.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
Take the case of a clergyman of stainless private morals who votes for a thief for public office, on his own party’s ticket, and against an honest man on the other ticket.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Quotes with THIEF (3)

I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he." I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper, That am come hither to wed with ye.""If you were a lord, you should be my lord, And the same if you were a thief," said she." And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper, For it makes no matter to me, to me, For it makes no matter to me.""But what if it prove that I am no harper? That I lied for your love most monstrously?""Why, then I'll teach you to pla…
Peter S. Beagle The Last Unicorn
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
John Updike A Month Of Sundays
The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care. I asked myself what I beli…
Lance Armstrong It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 130 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).