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Carpetbagger   /kˈɑrpətbˌægər/   Listen
Carpetbagger

noun
1.
An outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously.





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"Carpetbagger" Quotes from Famous Books



... not only saw much to admire in the colonial seats of prominent southerners like Patrick Henry and John Randolph, but showed an appreciation of the simple life of the Negroes. Their new position as freemen taking a part in the government, the role of the carpetbagger, and the undesirable conditions of that regime play some part ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various


Words linked to "Carpetbagger" :   self-seeker, opportunist


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