Sentences with phrase «petty pilfering»

You will never forget your first experience of a noisy «penguin city», where the dapper inhabitants show no fear of their strange visitors and where you will be immersed in a tumult of chattering, feeding chicks; territorial disputes; petty pilfering and courtship displays.

But former Tory Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said: «The failure of drugs policy is at the centre of a whole range of criminal problems from organised crime through petty pilfering.

Not exact matches

Related Words burglary, housebreaking; embezzlement, embezzling, graft, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation; petit larceny, petty larceny; filching, pilferage, pilfering, purloining, shoplifting; abduction, carjacking, hijacking (also highjacking), kidnapping (also kidnapping), shanghaiing; despoilment, despoliation, looting, pillage, plundering, raping, spoliation; poaching, rustling; black marketeering, smuggling; banditry, piracy