Meaning of burglarious | Babel Free

Definitions

Being or resembling a burglar

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Examples

“At nine o'clock on such a morning, the place⟳ of business of Pubsey and Co. was not the liveliest object even in Saint Mary Axe--which is not a very lively spot--with a sobbing gaslight in the counting-house window, and a burglarious stream of fog creeping in to strangle it through the keyhole of the main door.”

“He felt what a great advantage it was to be forewarned of the impending danger, since being forewarned was forearmed, as with the help⟳ of the police he could prepare⟳ for his burglarious visitors.”

“One evening I was sitting at dinner in a fashionable street in New York, close⟳ to Central Park⟳, when I was startled by a distinctly burglarious noise at the window.”

“Of the various burglarious proceedings he had heard of picking the trolls’ pockets seemed the least difficult, so at last⟳ he crept behind a tree just behind William.”

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