light-fingered

• lightfingered

From light (“not heavy”, adjective) +‎ fingered (“having fingers”, adjective).

• enPR: lītʹfĭng'gərd

light-fingered (comparative lighter-fingered or more light-fingered, superlative lightest-fingered or most light-fingered)

1. Having quick, light and nimble fingers.
2. (figuratively) Having nimble fingers, especially for stealing or picking pockets (pickpocketing), given to thievery or shoplifting.
   • 1848 June 28, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Before the Curtain”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], →OCLC, page vii:

     There is a great quantity of eating and drinking, making love and jilting, laughing and the contrary, smoking, cheating, fighting, dancing and fiddling; […] yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.

• light-fingeredness (noun)

light-fingered

1. simple past and past participle of light-finger

• sticky-fingered