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kleptomaniac

 [klep″to-ma´ne-ak]
a person exhibiting kleptomania.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

klep·to·ma·ni·ac

(klep'tō-mā'nē-ak),
A person exhibiting kleptomania.
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klep·to·ma·ni·ac

(klep'tō-mā'nē-ak)
A person exhibiting kleptomania.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
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His roommate, Trey, is the blueblood son of a congressman, and Vince is delighted to be matched up with someone so respectable--until he learns that Trey is a kleptomaniac. Trey also involves Vince in a rally for the concrete workers' union, and Vince's father gets involved, too.
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The picture stars Betty Blue's Jean-Hughes Anglade as a psychiatrist who may or may not have killed a masochistic, kleptomaniac female patient.
Dig around and there are some grand tales as the Wexford lad grafts hisway to the top: the chocolate laxative they fed to the kleptomaniac ladat John Jenkins'; the day Mick and his mates handed out drinks at RonHodges' Lawn Meet and then got slaughtered on the stirrup cup; the dodgyday at Aintree when a fallen Fitzgerald came round to find a cross-dressingnurse rubbing his genitals.
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She is kleptomaniac and gambler and who likes to flirt with guys as she proudly says that to woo a man is "not a character flaw, but an art."
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His owner Luton, said at come to my scream until I he has brought I've brought Another cat, It isn't the first time kleptomaniac animals have made the headlines.
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