Trifle with edging hotel prepared like dip (5-8)
I believe the answer is:
light-fingered
'like dip' is the definition.
(dip can mean a pickpocket)
'trifle with edging hotel prepared' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'prepared' indicates an anagram.
'trifle'+'edging'+'h'='trifleedgingh'
'trifleedgingh' is an anagram of 'LIGHT-FINGERED'.
(Other definitions for light-fingered that I've seen before include "Likely to steal" , "Liable to steal" , "Having a propensity for stealing" , "Inclined to steal" , "Like a pickpocket" .)