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Recent Examples of kleptomaniac
The parks department has even posted signs on the beach warning visitors about Cecil’s kleptomaniac habits.
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Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2025
The longtime psych-rock staple co-wrote the album with filmmaker Matt Yoka to be a collection of American stories about hopeless kleptomaniacs, urban explorers, and other people who slip through the cracks.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 30 May 2025
After her emergence, Dawn gets saddled with tedious subplots: a kleptomaniac streak, bad boyfriends, and an overeager tendency to put herself in danger.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
Joined by a kleptomaniac fox (Awkwafina), a brusque pangolin (Ke Huy Quan) and a trio of ferocious little bunnies, Po sets out to defeat a sorcerer named the Chameleon (Viola Davis).
—Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
This begs the question: What drives kleptomaniacs to commit acts of theft even with possible negative consequences?
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
The book, which chronicles the exploits of a kinky kleptomaniac, has been optioned for the screen, but has stalled due to the strikes.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2025
The longtime psych-rock staple co-wrote the album with filmmaker Matt Yoka to be a collection of American stories about hopeless kleptomaniacs, urban explorers, and other people who slip through the cracks.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 30 May 2025
After her emergence, Dawn gets saddled with tedious subplots: a kleptomaniac streak, bad boyfriends, and an overeager tendency to put herself in danger.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2025
Joined by a kleptomaniac fox (Awkwafina), a brusque pangolin (Ke Huy Quan) and a trio of ferocious little bunnies, Po sets out to defeat a sorcerer named the Chameleon (Viola Davis).
—Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024
This begs the question: What drives kleptomaniacs to commit acts of theft even with possible negative consequences?
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
The book, which chronicles the exploits of a kinky kleptomaniac, has been optioned for the screen, but has stalled due to the strikes.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kleptomaniac
Noun
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Companies currying favor have been replaced with those reacting to a climate of fear—of punishing lawsuits, of punitive regulatory reactions—fear that democracy is being replaced by a kind of klepto-feudalism.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
16 Dec. 2024
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America doesn't need your klepto-crude.—
Peter Weber,
The Week,
9 Mar. 2022
Noun
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Barb knowingly taking money from an embezzler would reshape our understanding of her as a character.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
24 Nov. 2025
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In 1930, Whitney, the scion of a prominent New England family, became the president of the stock exchange, but he was ultimately exposed as an embezzler and served more than three years in Sing Sing.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Ray Reynolds Financial Services Instead, the burglar grabbed two cameras that the Reynolds say are worth about $20,000.—
Zach Boetto,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
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The burglar suffered a wound to the right calf, and was taekn to UChicago Medicine where he was listed in good condition, police said.—
Deanese Williams-Harris,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
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The alleged thieves ripped bronze plaques and grave markers from headstones and walls of the cemetery's mausoleum.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
18 Mar. 2026
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The city of Los Angeles is about to raise property tax bills because thieves and vandals won’t stop ransacking the city’s infrastructure to steal copper wire.—
Susan Shelley,
Daily News,
18 Mar. 2026
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By then, the studio heads had backed off the draconian pay cuts, but a new pickpocket had arrived from Washington: a Code for the Motion Picture Industry put forward under the authority of the National Recovery Act, the enabling legislation for FDR’s New Deal.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Feb. 2026
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And when the 25,000 Social Security checks worth $8 million are delivered each month, police say 80 pickpockets arrive to prey on the elderly.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office has released body camera and surveillance footage showing a deadly confrontation between a deputy and an alleged shoplifter at a Walmart in Southwest Miami-Dade.—
Ivan Taylor,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Some said the new rules would not meaningfully curb retail theft, as associates are often trained not to engage with shoplifters.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Kleptomaniac.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kleptomaniac. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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