thievishly

1. 1.

   in a manner characteristic of a thief

Questions about thievishly

What does thievishly mean?

thievishly means "in a manner characteristic of a thief".

How many syllables are in thievishly?

thievishly has 3 syllables and divides as thie-vish-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is thievishly a common word?

thievishly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.