"sticky-fingered" meaning in English

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      "form": "most sticky-fingered",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990 December 17, “The Five-Fingered Discount”, in Time",
          "text": "Sticky-fingered customers and employees make off with $9 billion in merchandise annually.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?”, Sean Altman, David Yazbek (music)",
          "text": "Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina / She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 May 8, Jonathan LeMire, “Queens Teller Swiped 190G, Cops Say”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2011-07-22",
          "text": "A sticky-fingered teller was charged with stealing more than $190000 from her Queens bank in the past four months.",
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        }
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        "Possessing the behavioral trait of stealing, especially of engaging in petty theft while handling money or goods."
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          "petty",
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        ],
        [
          "theft",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of a person) Possessing the behavioral trait of stealing, especially of engaging in petty theft while handling money or goods."
      ],
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "possessing the behavioural trait of stealing",
          "word": "tagax"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1963 December 30, “Bears Win, 14 to 10; Take Title”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 2011-07-22, page 13",
          "text": "Chicago's sticky-fingered defense intercepted five of YA Tittle's passes.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 June 13, Jon Krawczynski, “Twins 7, Braves 3”, in USA Today, retrieved 2011-07-22",
          "text": "His batting average has hovered in the .330s all season and he has played his usual sticky-fingered defense at second.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Skillful in catching or handling the ball, in such games as baseball, football, basketball, etc."
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        "(sports) Skillful in catching or handling the ball, in such games as baseball, football, basketball, etc."
      ],
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        "hobbies",
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        "simple past and past participle of sticky-finger"
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        {
          "word": "five-finger discount"
        },
        {
          "word": "light-fingered"
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          "word": "pilfery"
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        "comparative"
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        "superlative"
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          "ref": "1990 December 17, “The Five-Fingered Discount”, in Time",
          "text": "Sticky-fingered customers and employees make off with $9 billion in merchandise annually.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1991, “Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?”, Sean Altman, David Yazbek (music)",
          "text": "Well, she sneaks around the world from Kiev to Carolina / She's a sticky-fingered filcher from Berlin down to Belize",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 May 8, Jonathan LeMire, “Queens Teller Swiped 190G, Cops Say”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2011-07-22",
          "text": "A sticky-fingered teller was charged with stealing more than $190000 from her Queens bank in the past four months.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Possessing the behavioral trait of stealing, especially of engaging in petty theft while handling money or goods."
      ],
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          "trait",
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        ],
        [
          "steal",
          "steal"
        ],
        [
          "petty",
          "petty"
        ],
        [
          "theft",
          "theft"
        ]
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        "(of a person) Possessing the behavioral trait of stealing, especially of engaging in petty theft while handling money or goods."
      ],
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        "of a person"
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          "ref": "1963 December 30, “Bears Win, 14 to 10; Take Title”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 2011-07-22, page 13",
          "text": "Chicago's sticky-fingered defense intercepted five of YA Tittle's passes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 June 13, Jon Krawczynski, “Twins 7, Braves 3”, in USA Today, retrieved 2011-07-22",
          "text": "His batting average has hovered in the .330s all season and he has played his usual sticky-fingered defense at second.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Skillful in catching or handling the ball, in such games as baseball, football, basketball, etc."
      ],
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        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "Skillful",
          "skilful"
        ],
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          "catch",
          "catch"
        ],
        [
          "handling",
          "handle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports) Skillful in catching or handling the ball, in such games as baseball, football, basketball, etc."
      ],
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        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "possessing the behavioural trait of stealing",
      "word": "tagax"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sticky-fingered"
}

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