|
  • Search Results
  • Advanced Search
  • List Builder
  • Random Word

carpetbagger

DEFINITIONS OF: carpetbagger

1

n an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously

“after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south”
Type of:
opportunist, self-seeker
a person who places expediency above principle
Launch
WORD FAMILY
USAGE EXAMPLES