chancer

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Crazytown tastic! ... andy: all i can find for the word chancer is a scheming individual. no french translation. they must b mad! ...

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  1. To adjust according to principles of equity, as would be done by a court of chancery: as, to chancer a forfeiture. Mass. Prov. Laws.

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  • This is as weird as Senator Ross's obsession with bringing back the chancer McCreevy to save the country. —  Public Inquiry
  • Crazytown tastic! ... andy: all i can find for the word chancer is a scheming individual. no french translation. they must b mad! ... —  Life Without Toast - Sibling Rivalry
  • Another second-chancer, but his took another entire audition cycle. —  Playback:stl Syndication
  • Opening this week, Don John draws on Mozart's Don Giovanni but is mainly the unique Kneehigh take on what happens when Don John the chancer, the charmer insinuates himself into a group of lonely, confused and struggling people. —  Londonist
  • To some, Asif Ali Khan Zardari is a corrupt, bullying chancer who was a political liability for his late wife, Benazir Bhutto. —  Mail & Guardian Online
 

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