purloin in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for purloin in the English»Bulgarian Dictionary

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English
Who hasn't looked round to see if anybody would see them purloining something, even if it wasn't a bundle?
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They also had created mannequin heads out of paper, paint and hair purloined from the prison barber shop.
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Occasionally, a plump goat, clearly ready for the cooking pot, may be purloined and a pilferer chased.
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Recently, the ideal of human rights has been purloined by people engaged in acts of aggression against established communities.
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A much better reason to break into his liquor cabinet than to purloin expensive port for cranberry sauce.
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In most establishments the management tries to prevent holidaymakers making off with the makings of lunch purloined from the breakfast buffet.
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The inhabitants will eventually purloin water and electricity from the adjoining communities, creating a drain on those communities' resources.
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But we're entering an era when many journalists have the necessary skills to actively purloin that information themselves.
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In one case he found that a critic had purloined part of his review from another review.
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It had a spotlight fashioned from newspaper, tape and wire, and a backcloth purloined from the airing cupboard.
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