as in kleptomaniac
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Companies currying favor have been replaced with those reacting to a climate of fear—of punishing lawsuits, of punitive regulatory reactions—fear that democracy is being replaced by a kind of klepto-feudalism.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
16 Dec. 2024
The first trilogy borrowed greedily from Flash Gordon and Japanese samurai movies, and set a precedent for future klepto-cinema.
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Joe Pappalardo,
Popular Mechanics,
20 Dec. 2017
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
16 Dec. 2024
The first trilogy borrowed greedily from Flash Gordon and Japanese samurai movies, and set a precedent for future klepto-cinema.
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Joe Pappalardo,
Popular Mechanics,
20 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for klepto
embezzler
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To begin with, the community is run by Blaine Shaw (Seth Numrich), surely the slickest scammer of old folks since John Mahoney’s nursing-home embezzler in 1989’s Say Anything.
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Barb knowingly taking money from an embezzler would reshape our understanding of her as a character.
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“Klepto.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/klepto. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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