spiv in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for spiv in the English»Italian Dictionary

spiv [Brit spɪv, Am spɪv] N Brit inf, pej

spiv

trafficone m

spiv

maneggione m

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

It is acts like those, which have caused many who have observed him at close quarters, to dismiss him as a shallow, devious spiv.

www.mirror.co.uk

Add to that attack dogs usually associated with a crack house and spivs normally expelled from a flea market.

www.express.co.uk

In the meantime the spivs, the con men and the boiler-room operators have been lining up to relieve soon-to-be-pensioners of their hard-saved cash.

www.independent.co.uk

And when you try to leave, in the old tradition of charming, bottom-line spivs: they sue you.

www.telegraph.co.uk

He is an unprincipled spiv -- a disgrace to his country and his office as prime minister...

blogs.spectator.co.uk

Money from employers that should have been used for members benefit were spent for the benefit of the spivs.

www.abc.net.au

The gentleman's version of the be-stockinged lovely is the plausible spiv.

www.independent.co.uk

Anyone who believes a single promise this bunch of spivs, charlatans, chancers and wide-boys makes should be ashamed.

blogs.channel4.com

And so when the marketing spivs tell us "the tradition continues", some of us feel it's less than just a slogan.

www.theroar.com.au

Where some of us see a tiresome pub bore, a bully, a spiv, others see a folk hero.

www.scotsman.com