Meaning & use
Larcenous
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Relating to or guilty of larceny; having the character of theft.
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The employee was fired after a larcenous scheme to skim cash from the register was uncovered.
Prosecutors described the fraud as a larcenous plot that spanned nearly a decade.
A note on using this word
It derives from 'larceny,' the legal term for theft of personal property, itself rooted in the Old French 'larcin.'
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