"thiefy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From thief + -y.",
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      "form": "more thiefy",
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          "ref": "1949, The New Yorker, volume 25, page 52",
          "text": "This makes for some pretty funny business, and so does a scene showing the fence stepping forth from a church, where he has presumably been casting a thiefy eye at the sacred vessels, and talking briskly to a henchman about the paint job he wants done on one of his hot commodities.",
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        {
          "ref": "2000, Fred Johnston, Atalanta, page 162",
          "text": "A sullen, thiefy edginess crept over Ardreagh.",
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        {
          "ref": "2017, Carrie Ryan, John Parke Davis, Shadows of the Lost Sun",
          "text": "He picked up the last of the pieces and studied it. It depicted a shadowy figure, crouched and masked. Very thiefy, he noted with a smile. “What about this one? How does it move, and what does it do?”",
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        "Like a thief; thievish; thieving"
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        "(informal) Like a thief; thievish; thieving"
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          "word": "thieflike"
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          "word": "thiefly"
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          "ref": "1949, The New Yorker, volume 25, page 52",
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        "(informal) Like a thief; thievish; thieving"
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  "word": "thiefy"
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