Usually means: Behaving in a thieving manner.
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  1. thiefly: Wordnik
  2. thiefly: Wiktionary
  3. Thiefly: Dictionary.com
  4. Thiefly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. thiefly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Thiefly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. thiefly: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Thiefly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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adjective:  (now rare) Like a thief; thievish.
adverb:  (obsolete) Like a thief; thievishly.

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