Pilfering is valid Scrabble Word

Is pilfering a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is pilfering valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for PILFERING in dictionary:

VERB:

steal (things of little value)

NOUN:

petty theft
Petty theft.

ADJECTIVE:

Thieving in a small way.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to steal

Words related to PILFERING

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Words that contain PILFERING

pilferings16 pilferingly20

How to use PILFERING in a sentence

This continual pilfering, I was assured, was a serious tax on the cultivation of the estates around.
A former civil officer named Van Dyck had a very fine peach orchard which caused him no little annoyance on account of the constant pilfering of the Indians.
He fancied he felt the little pilfering hands stealing into his pockets.
He then, although only nine years of age, began with pilfering and robbing gardens and orchards, till his friends were obliged to send him to sea.
The present picture is an instance of this practice, its subject being the baby Krishna pilfering butter.
I told him that I considered his whole class as fair game for literary pilfering.
One of the men, upon being detected in the act of pilfering a piece of white paper from Mr.
Faith, friend De Foe, thou art quite at home! Not one of thy great offspring thou dost lack, From pirate Singleton to pilfering Jack.
As he grew older he fell in with a tribe of semi-gipsies, and wandered in their company for a year or two, learning their petty pilfering tricks.
The pilfering of antiquities found during the course of authorised excavations is one of the most common forms of robbery.

The archaeologist, however, is unfortunately unable to rely upon this form of protection, and many are the schemes for the prevention of pilfering which are tried.
On the other hand, the least pilfering is unpardonable, and punished by death.
They behaved whilst on board with much decorum, showed a strong degree of curiosity, but not the least disposition for pilfering.
A high-born woman may handle what she fancies Without being ear-pruned like a pilfering beggar.
Since the bringing in of new riches, the inducements to pilfering must have increased.
It would almost seem that, according to their peculiar code of morals, the pilfering of a hatchet or a wrought nail from a European, is looked upon as a praiseworthy action.
There were many such, for the Sawtooth, powerful and stern against outlawry, tolerated no pilfering from their thousands.
Neither did I see or hear of any instances of looting or petty pilfering from the civilian inhabitants.
He thrives on percentages of pilfering, grows rich on the distributed dividends of rascality.
A young neighbor of ours has also cured her pet cat of slyly pilfering eggs at the stable, in much the way Uncle Solon cured his dog.
I am afraid that there is much of this kind of pilfering among servants in these bad dayes of ours.
With a little training they made fair servants if only their pilfering propensities could be restrained.
He had been deprived of salary for three years and accused of pilfering from public funds.
And just then some of his friends were caught pilfering, and the whole crew of them were bundled away.
It is when thus on the tramp that the petty pilfering, and picking and stealing, to which I have alluded to, goes on.
The robber barons whom we had to fear along the river were at least not pilfering vagabonds, such as we should meet across country.
The servants were numerous, and had, no doubt, the usual idle, pilfering habits of slaves.
He has been losing small sums, he declares, by pilfering.
It is singular that so original a writer should have descended to pilfering.
He forced himself to bow to her again, and to beat a dignified retreat, when his inclination was to take to his heels like a school-boy caught pilfering apples.

Similar words containing PILFER without suffix ing

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