lestobiotic
Adjective
Surviving by covertly stealing food.
Usage- Uncommon
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The walls of the galleries in some of the formicaries were tenanted by teeming colonies of the minute lestobiotic, or thief ant, Solenopsis molesta Say.
More examples (2)
His was patriotism whose cause and consequence were mutually derived from the interplay of the dynamics of micro and macro forces within the Nigerian nation-state with its lestobiotic tendencies.
Evidently adhering to a lestobiotic course throughout his criminal life, he only commits himself to petty thefts, shoplifting, lewdness and writing bad checks, with no modus operandi of violent crime to be found, and I’m sure you’ll breathe easier, ladies, as I tell you specifically he has no sex offender jacket anywhere.
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