Usually means: Thief who stealthily steals items.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word purloiner:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. purloiner: Merriam-Webster
  2. purloiner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purloiner: Collins English Dictionary
  4. purloiner: Wordnik
  5. purloiner: Wiktionary
  6. Purloiner, purloiner: Dictionary.com
  7. Purloiner: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. purloiner: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Purloiner: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. purloiner: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. purloiner: FreeDictionary.org
  12. purloiner: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purloiner: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. purloiner: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  One who purloins.

Similar:
pickpurse, piller, cutpurse, picker, filch, pick-purse, rapiner, pickpocket, expilator, pocketer, more...

Opposite:
returner, giver, donor, restorer

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Similar:
pickpurse, piller, cutpurse, picker, filch, pick-purse, rapiner, pickpocket, expilator, pocketer, more...

Opposite:
returner, giver, donor, restorer



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