单词 | thief-like |
释义 | thief-like, a. and adv.|ˈθiːflaɪk| [f. thief + like a. and adv.] a. adj. Like or resembling a thief. b. adv. In the manner of a thief.
1621Fletcher Pilgrim ii. ii, But since thou stealst upon me like a spie, And thief-like thinkst that holy case shall carry thee Through all my purposes. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 25 Each of them, thief-like, wished to steal an unobserved gaze at the other. 1847Emerson Poems (1857) 143 And thief-like step of liberal hours Thawing snow-drift into flowers. |

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