Associations to the word «Larceny»

Wiktionary

LARCENY, noun. (legal) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.
LARCENY, noun. (legal) A larcenous act attributable to an individual.

Dictionary definition

LARCENY, noun. The act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope