Adjective

(en adjective)

Being or resembling a burglar

* {{quote-book, year=1865, author=Charles Dickens, title=Our Mutual Friend, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=At nine o'clock on such a morning, the place of business of Pubsey and Co. was not the liveliest object even in Saint Mary Axe--which is not a very lively spot--with a sobbing gaslight in the counting-house window, and a burglarious stream of fog creeping in to strangle it through the keyhole of the main door. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1872, author=Horatio Alger, title=Slow and Sure, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He felt what a great advantage it was to be forewarned of the impending danger, since being forewarned was forearmed, as with the help of the police he could prepare for his burglarious visitors. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1899, author=William Archer, title=America To-day, Observations and Reflections, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=One evening I was sitting at dinner in a fashionable street in New York, close to Central Park, when I was startled by a distinctly burglarious noise at the window. }}