Vocabulary Word
Word: larceny
Definition: theft; Ex. petit larceny
Definition: theft; Ex. petit larceny
Sentences Containing 'larceny'
For Flask to have presumed to help himself, this must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.
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