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somethingdarkerBandit.
Bet.
Bribe.
Burglar:
Brigands and bootleggers and burglars - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Hotly bound on blissful burglary - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
a burglar caught red-handed - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"
A truth burgled, tarnished, but returned - Brandon O'Brien "Quiet and Fragile Try on the Same Romper"
Cheat.
Contraband.
Corrupt.
Counterfeit.
Extortion:
Who by fraud or extortion would rise - "The Emperor's Rout"
Tears extorted by the dread of death - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Extortion and the imperfect tense - Ted Mathys "Fool's Gold"
Evades the cold extortion of your eye - Lola Ridge "Sonnet (To E.S.)"
Forgery:
Forgery of deeper meaning - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
A forgery that will one day burn - Rajiv Mohabir "Ode to Richmond Hill"
Fraud.
Gamble.
Graft.
Pilfer.
Pillage:
Murder, and pillage, and cannon's roar - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"
Lest moths pillage my velvet capes - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
Here is pillage worth a war - Edwin Markham "In Poppy Fields"
Piracy/Pirate.
Plunder.
Poach:
When you trust a house of poachers - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"
The piercing glance of the eagle to the poacher - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Where poachers set their wires - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"
Purloin:
Tropes purloining, graces coining - "London Lyrics: The Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
With scraps of purloined timber - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"
Ransack.
Ransom.
Rob.
Smuggle:
Some song smuggled under my tongue - Aimee Le "Where I Learn to Shrink"
Steal/Stole.
Stolen.
Swindle:
Slammed, severed, and swindled - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
A swindled naturalist - Pablo Neruda "Morning with Air" transl. by William O'Daly
Theft.
Thief.
Venal:
Our venal empire dwindling to dust - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Wager.
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Bet.
Bribe.
Burglar:
Brigands and bootleggers and burglars - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Hotly bound on blissful burglary - Sidney Lanier "The Bee" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Oct. 1877 v.XX no.118]
a burglar caught red-handed - Valzhyna Mort "crossword"
A truth burgled, tarnished, but returned - Brandon O'Brien "Quiet and Fragile Try on the Same Romper"
Cheat.
Contraband.
Corrupt.
Counterfeit.
Extortion:
Who by fraud or extortion would rise - "The Emperor's Rout"
Tears extorted by the dread of death - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Extortion and the imperfect tense - Ted Mathys "Fool's Gold"
Evades the cold extortion of your eye - Lola Ridge "Sonnet (To E.S.)"
Forgery:
Forgery of deeper meaning - Rasha Abdulhadi "The Obstacle Bargainer's Lorica"
A forgery that will one day burn - Rajiv Mohabir "Ode to Richmond Hill"
Fraud.
Gamble.
Graft.
Pilfer.
Pillage:
Murder, and pillage, and cannon's roar - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"
Lest moths pillage my velvet capes - Ed Lynskey "Mrs. Lincoln's Terror of Moths"
Here is pillage worth a war - Edwin Markham "In Poppy Fields"
Piracy/Pirate.
Plunder.
Poach:
When you trust a house of poachers - Mahogany L. Browne "I Remember Death by its Proximity to What I Love"
The piercing glance of the eagle to the poacher - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]
Where poachers set their wires - John Masefield "The Daffodil Fields"
Purloin:
Tropes purloining, graces coining - "London Lyrics: The Auctioneer's Ode to Mercury" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13, no.365, 11 April 1829]
With scraps of purloined timber - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"
Ransack.
Ransom.
Rob.
Smuggle:
Some song smuggled under my tongue - Aimee Le "Where I Learn to Shrink"
Steal/Stole.
Stolen.
Swindle:
Slammed, severed, and swindled - Parneshia Jones "What Would Gwendolyn Brooks Do"
A swindled naturalist - Pablo Neruda "Morning with Air" transl. by William O'Daly
Theft.
Thief.
Venal:
Our venal empire dwindling to dust - Noah Warren "Shuttle"
Wager.
Navigation Links:
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Go to word indices.
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