- light-fingeredness
- noun see light-fingered
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
light-fingeredness
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light-fingeredness — light fin·gered·ness … English syllables
light-fingeredness — See light fingered. * * * … Universalium
light-fingeredness — noun see light fingered … Useful english dictionary
light-fingeredness — n. agility in one s fingers; ease and skill in petty thievery (especially picking pockets) … English contemporary dictionary
light-fingered — [līt′fiŋ΄gərd] adj. 1. having a light, delicate touch 2. a) skillful at stealing, esp. by picking pockets b) thievish light fingeredness n … English World dictionary
light-fingered — light fingeredness, n. /luyt fing geuhrd/, adj. 1. skillful at or given to pilfering, esp. by picking pockets; thievish. 2. having light and nimble fingers. [1540 50] * * * … Universalium
light-fingered — adjective Date: 1547 1. showing adroitness in stealing or a tendency to steal especially by picking pockets or shoplifting 2. having a light and dexterous touch ; nimble • light fingeredness noun … New Collegiate Dictionary
kleptomania — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. compulsion to steal, thievishness, light fingeredness; see neurosis , theft … English dictionary for students
nimbleness — n 1. agility, sprightliness, spryness, featliness, lightness, gracefulness, grace; nimble footedness, fleet footedness, light footedness, light leggedness; legerity, alacrity, celerity, activity, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, address;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
Michael Bishop (author) — Michael Bishop Born November 12, 1945 (1945 11 12) (age 65) Lincoln, Nebraska Occupation novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet, teacher Nationality American Period 1970 present … Wikipedia
