Today’s Words That Work: Purloin

To purloin (per-LOIN) — from the French for “to remove” — is to steal/take dishonestly.

Example (as used by Howie Jacobson today): “One night, about two weeks before the dance, I purloined the corded phone in my parents’ bedroom, locked myself in my room with a phonebook, and prepared for my first foray into outbound telemarketing.”

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